Philip Crummy

Philip Crummy is known for his work on A History of Celtic Britain (2011), Mystic Britain (2019) and Revealed (2002).

Philip Crummy is Director and Principal Archaeologist at Colchester Archaeological Trust, a position he has held since 1971. In that time he has dedicated his career to putting Roman Colchester (Camulodunum) on the map, through excavating its remains and working tirelessly to improve public understanding of the city’s past. He has published widely in academic journals, monographs, and in the Colchester Archaeological Reports, as well as in the Trust’s magazine, The Colchester Archaeologist, which he has edited for two decades, and in the pages of CA. Under Philip’s leadership, the Trust’s work has seen Colchester’s archaeology make international news on multiple occasions, from his campaign to buy land containing the remains of the city’s circus, or Roman chariot racing track, to the discovery of the stunning ‘Fenwick Treasure’, a hoard of Roman jewellery dating from the time of Colchester’s destruction at the hands of Boudica’s Iceni army.