The energy, imagination and expertise of Donald Gordon played a key role in displaying finds from the Roman fort site near Melrose, in the Scottish Borders, in the Trimontium museum.
Equally, his work on the correspondence of James Curle, the site’s excavator at the start of the 20th century, adds much to our knowledge of archaeological inquiry of the period. In Gordon’s book Revealing Trimontium (2023) it is poignant to see how civilised dialogue and co-operation between international scholars and enthusiasts were affected by the first world war.
We also learn that complaints by academics about journalism garbling their work are nothing new.
