Wayne Cocroft is a senior archaeological investigator in Historic England’s Archaeological Investigation Team with special responsibility for military and industrial heritage. For over thirty years he has specialised in the investigation and assessment of former military sites and has an interest in understanding the infrastructure of explosives manufacture and Cold War research and development establishments. He has published extensively on these topics and contributed to the Springer Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology and the Oxford University Press Industrial Archaeology Handbook. More recently he has been working to ensure post-war coal- and oil-fired, and nuclear power stations are documented before loss. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists