Colin B Burgess (1938–2014) was an archaeologist specializing in the Bronze Age, especially in the north east of England and the Mediterranean.
[1] Originally from London, Burgess studied at Cardiff University, where he wrote an undergraduate dissertation on bronze-age metalwork from the Thames.
For most of his career, he worked at Newcastle University, where he focused on the archaeology of north east of England, and formed relationships with both amateur archaeologists and international scholars.
[1] (This disillusionment is expressed most forcefully in a note published in the 2001 reissue of his textbook, The Age of Stonehenge.)
Burgess and Colquhoun use methods from experimental archaeology to suggest that it took three weeks to manufacture a sword, with Bronze Age technology.