James Thorn

Elected 16 November 2006

From the 1960s, Jim was an archaeological illustrator with the Department of the Environment, later English Heritage, and then, up to his retirement, with the British Museum. He is also remembered for his many papers on medieval pottery and his surveys of monuments in Cyrene, leading to his major achievement, The Necropolis of Cyrene: two-hundred years of exploration (2005), a massive task involving the survey of numerous tombs.