Timothy William Potter (6 July 1944 – 11 January 2000) was a archaeologist of ancient Italy, as well as of Roman Britain, best known for his focus on landscape archaeology.
He followed his brother Christopher to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read anthropology and archaeology, graduating with a 2:1 in 1966 and obtained his Ph.D. in 1974; his Ph.D. thesis was entitled Archaeological Topography of the Central and Southern Ager Faliscus.
[2] Potter was a student of John Bryan Ward-Perkins and a member of the South Etruria Survey conducted by the British School at Rome.
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 1966-71 (1976) and The changing landscape of South Etruria (1979).
[5] Together with Catherine Johns, he also wrote the Roman Britain title in the series.