A Mosaic of Recollections: Memoirs of an archaeologist

REVIEW BY STEPHEN R COSH David Neal’s autobiography is a candid – sometimes perhaps too candid – account of his personal life and almost 70 years involvement in archaeology, lavishly illustrated. From humble beginnings, David’s interest in archaeology and talent for art led him in 1959 to produce a 1:10 scale tessera-by-tessera painting of a mosaic from Verulamium, the first of many. This was the start of a long career in archaeology and archaeological illustration. The book is written in an anecdotal style, very different from the author’s numerous reports of his excavations, many articles, and the massive five-volume corpus of Romano-British mosaics, a collaboration with t