A. L. F. Rivet

Albert Lionel Frederick Rivet, FBA (30 November 1915 – 6 September 1993) was a British archaeologist and cartographer.

He briefly worked as a schoolmaster in 1938–1939, then enlisted as a private soldier in the Royal Corps of Signals in East Africa, serving as a major from 1940 to 1946.

[3] In 1952, he obtained the post of Assistant Archaeology Officer in the Ordnance Survey, where he was responsible for the production of historical period maps.

He wrote many publications including The Place-Names of Roman Britain (1979), co-written with Colin Smith, and Gallia Narbonensis (1988).

[2] Rivet served as president of the academic journal Britannia from 1977 to 1980, and as a vice-president thereafter.