06-11-2008, 09:45 PM
Sadly it is time to mark the death of my friend and colleague John Dore at the age of only 56.
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It was he who introduced me to, and instilled a love for, Roman Corbridge (he had the unique distinction of co-directing the excavations there before the new museum was built and then going on to be the first curator!). He will doubtless be remembered for many different things by many different people, but for me it was hours sitting in the museum basement doing some mindless cataloguing task moaning about archaeology and archaeologists, setting the world to rights, and marvelling at the wonder of Corbridge. Each of us would show the other stuff we had found in the reserve collection that was in some way special - at times it was almost enough to make me interested in pottery - and laugh at the inanities of the whole wretched business. I cherish the memory of him telling me about the time he was overtaken on the motorway by the caravan he was supposed to be towing on his way to a dig.
He was one of the nicest, most gentle and generous people I knew. And I shall miss him.
Mike Bishop
It was he who introduced me to, and instilled a love for, Roman Corbridge (he had the unique distinction of co-directing the excavations there before the new museum was built and then going on to be the first curator!). He will doubtless be remembered for many different things by many different people, but for me it was hours sitting in the museum basement doing some mindless cataloguing task moaning about archaeology and archaeologists, setting the world to rights, and marvelling at the wonder of Corbridge. Each of us would show the other stuff we had found in the reserve collection that was in some way special - at times it was almost enough to make me interested in pottery - and laugh at the inanities of the whole wretched business. I cherish the memory of him telling me about the time he was overtaken on the motorway by the caravan he was supposed to be towing on his way to a dig.
He was one of the nicest, most gentle and generous people I knew. And I shall miss him.
Mike Bishop
