Background
Potter was educated at March Grammar School in March, Cambridgeshire, where his father Cedric Potter was headmaster.
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Timothy Potter
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He followed his brother Christopher to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read anthropology and archaeology, graduating with a double first in 1966 and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1974. His Doctor of Philosophy thesis was entitled Archaeological Topography of Central and Southern Ager Faliscus.
Career
In the 1980s Potter excavated at Stonea, a Roman settlement in the fens of Cambridgeshire. As part of the survey Potter worked on the Ager Faliscus leading to two influential books, A Faliscan Town in South Etruria: Excavations at Narce 1966-1971 (1976) and The changing landscape of South Etruria (1979). Potter also authored a popular course textbook entitled Roman Italy (1987).
The survey also led to his important excavations at Monte Gelato (1986-1990) and Narce (1966-1971).
Potter taught at the University of Lancaster (1973-1978) where he instituted a new archaeology program In 1978 he moved to the British Museum and their department of Prehistoric and Romano-British Antiquities, serving as assistant keeper from 1978 to 1995 and keeper from 1995 until his death.
Membership
Potter was a student of John Bryan Ward-Perkins and a member of the South Etruria Survey conducted by the British School at Rome.
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Roman