Research
The social and economic archaeology of the Roman world. Interactions between the Classical World and indigenous societies. Archaeological survey methods.
Current projects:
Roman colonization in the Liri Valley, Italy (jointly with Dr Alessandro Launaro).
Romano-British settlement in northern England including survey and excavation at Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum) in collaboration with Rose Ferraby.
Underneath the Surface of Roman Republican Towns. An AHRC-funded project (jointly with the University of Ghent) that is using high resolution Ground Penetrating Radar to survey towns in Roman Italy. http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/Research/projects/beneath-the-surface-of-roman-republican-cities
Roman York beneath the Streets. An AHRC-funded project (jointly with Dr John Creighton, University of Reading) that is providing a revised synthesis of Roman York and undertaking new Ground Penetrating Radar work within the city.https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/beneath-the-surface-of-...
Watch research presentations:
- "Reliquae Isurianae: the antiquarian and contemporary exploration of Roman Aldborough" https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=lFLbNWSdVFk (Society of Antiquaries 2020, London)
- "Towards a new landscape archaeology?" (Keynote, Computer Applications in Archaeology 2015, Siena
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCcQudY2GCs (Roman Society Conference "50 years of Britannia" November 2016)
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https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/roman-landscapes (Gresham College Lecture, March 2023)
Publications
Books:
1990 The Romanization of Britain: an essay in archaeological interpretation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) (Paperback edition issued 1992)
1995 Roman Britain (UK; English Heritage/Batsford) (Second edition 2005)
1995 (with J. M. Carreté and S. J. Keay) A Roman Provincial Capital and its Hinterland: the survey of the territory of Tarragona, 1985-1990 (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series no. 15)
1995 (edited with J. Metzler, N. Roymans and J. Slofstra) Integration in the Early Roman West: the role of culture and ideology (Dossiers d'Archéologie du Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art IV, Luxembourg)
1999 (with P. Halkon) Rural Settlement and Industry: studies in the Iron Age and Roman archaeology of lowland East Yorkshire (Yorkshire Archaeological Society Roman Antiquities Section monograph no. 4)
2001 (edited with J. Pearce and M. Struck) Burial Practice in the Roman World: contextual studies (Oxford: Oxbow Books)
2001 (edited with S. T. James) Britons and Romans: advancing an archaeological agenda (York: Council for British Archaeology Research Report 125)
2005 (with S. Keay, L. Paroli and K. Strutt) Portus: An Archaeological Survey of the Port of Imperial Rome, British School at Rome Monograph 15 (ISBN 0 904152 47 2)
2005 Roman Britain, English Heritage/Batsford (second edition revised)
2006 Shiptonthorpe, East Yorkshire : archaeological studies of a Romano-British roadside settlement, Yorkshire Archaeological Society Roman Antiquities Section monograph no. 5 (ISBN 1 9035 6465 4)
2013 (edited with Paul Johnson) Archaeological Survey and the City, Oxford: Oxbow Books (ISBN 978-1-84217-509-5)
2013 (with S. Hay and S.J. Keay) Ocriculum (Otricoli, Province of Terni): an archaeological survey of the Roman town, London: British School at Rome Monograph 22 (ISBN 978-0-904152-67-8)
2015 (Edited with P. Halkon and H. Woodhouse) Hayton, East Yorkshire: archaeological studies of the Iron Age and Roman landscapes. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Report 7 (2 vols). (ISBN 978-0-9932383-2-1)
2016 (With R. Ferraby) Aldborough Roman Town. London: English Heritage Guidebooks. (ISBN 978-1-910907-11-5)
2016 (Edited with Alison Moore and Louise Revell) The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (ISBN 978-0-19-969773-1)
2017 (Edited with Rose Ferraby, Paul Johnson and Lacey Wallace) Thwing, Rudston and the Roman-period exploitation of the Yorkshire Wolds. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Report 8. (ISBN978-0-9932383-7-6
2020 (With Rose Ferraby) Isurium Brigantum: an archaeological survey of Roman Aldborough. London: Society of Antiquaries Research Report no. 81. https://doi.org/10.26530/20.500.12657/37741
2020 (With S. Keay, K. Strutt and P. Germoni The Isola Sacra Survey: Ostia, Portus and the port system of Imperial Rome, McDonald Institute Monograph. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.55280
2023 (With A. Launaro Interamna Lirenas: a Roman Town in Central Italy revisited, McDonald Institute Monograph. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.99664
Selected Articles:
2000 (with F. Queiroga, K. Strutt, J. Taylor and S. H. Willis) 'The Ave Valley , northern Portugal : an archaeological survey of Iron Age and Roman settlement'. Internet Archaeology
2000 (with S. J. Keay, S. Poppy, J. Robinson, J. Taylor and N. Terrenato ) 'Falerii Novi: a new survey of the walled area'. Papers of the British School at Rome 68, 1-93. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068246200003871
2001 'Roman interaction in NW Iberia'. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 20/2, 157-70 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0092.00128
2004 (with S. Keay and P. Johnson) 'Lesser urban sites in the Tiber Valley : Baccanae, Forum Cassii and Castellum Amerinum'. Papers of the British School at Rome 72, 69-100 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068246200002671
2004 (with S. Keay, S. Poppy, J. Robinson, J. Taylor and N. Terrenato) 'New approaches to Roman urbanism in the Tiber Valley', H. Patterson (ed.) Approaches to Regional Archaeology in the Middle Tiber Valley, Archaeological Monograph of the British School at Rome 12, 223-36
2006 (with S. Keay and K Strutt) 'An archaeological survey of Capena (La Civitucola, Provincia di Roma)', Papers of the British School at Rome, 74, 73-118. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068246200003238
2007 (with C. Carlucci, M.A. De Lucia Brolli, S. Keay and K. Strutt) 'An archaeological survey of the Faliscan settlement at Vignale, Falerii Veteres, (Province of Viterbo)', Papers of the British School at Rome, 75, 39-121. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068246200003524
2007 'Roman Kent', in The Archaeology of Kent to AD 800 (ed.) J. H. Williams, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 135-84
2007 'Urban topography and social identity in the Tiber Valley', in Roman by integration: dimensions of group identity in material culture and text, (eds) R. Roth and J. Keller. Journal of Roman Archaeol. supplement 69, 71-82
2008 (with R. Ferraby, S. Hay and S. Keay) 'Archaeological survey at Fregellae 2004-05', C. Corsi and E. Polito (eds) Dalle sorenti alla foce. Il bacino del Liri-Garigliano nell' antichita: culture contatti scambi, Roma: Quasar, 125-31.
2009 (with S. Hay, S. Keay and T. Sly) 'Urban field-survey at Ocriculum (Otricoli, Umbria )', F. Coarelli and H. Patterson (eds) Mercator Placidissimus: The Tiber Valley in Antiquity, Roma: Quasar, 797-809.
2010 (with S. Hay, P. Johnson and S. Keay) ‘Falerii Novi: further survey of the northern extra-mural area’ Papers of the British School at Rome, 78, 1-38. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068246200000799
2011 (with P. Germoni, S. Keay and K. Strutt) 'The Isola Sacra: reconstructing the Roman landscape', S. Keay and L. Paroli (eds) Portus and its hinterland, Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 18, 231-60. ISBN 978-0-904152-60-9
2012 (with S. Hay, A. Launaro and N. Leone) 'Interamna Lirenas e il su territorio. Indagini archeologiche non invasive 2010', Sabina e Lazio 8 (Atti del Convengo, Roma 30-31 Marzo, 1 Apirile 2011): 603-09. ISBN 978-88-7140-476-9
2012 (with S. Hay and S. Keay) 'Teano (Teanun Sidicinum), Campania', in F. Vermeulen, G.-J. Burgers, S. Keay and C. Corsi (eds) Urban landscape survey in Italy and the Mediterranean. Oxford: Oxbow, 105–13.
2015 (with R. Gowland) Infant and child burial rites in Roman Britain: a study from East Yorkshire, Britannia 46: 171–89. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X15000100
2016 (with S. Keay) Republican and early Imperial Towns in the Tiber Valley, in A. E. Cooley (ed.) A Companion to Roman Italy. Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley, 357–77. ISBN 9781444339260
2016 'By small things revealed': Rural settlement and society, in M. Millett, A. Moore and L. Revell (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 699–719. [Published on-line 2014] https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697713.013.038
2016 Roman Britain since Haverfield, in M. Millett, A. Moore and L. Revell (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 22–42. [Published on-line 2015]. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697713.013.003
2016 Rural settlement in Roman Britain and its significance for the Early Medieval period, Haskins Society Journal, 27, 1–14.
2016 Improving our understanding of Londinium, Antiquity, 90, 1692–99. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.214
2017 Discussion: reflections on the representational use of artefact evidence, in M.Pitts and A.Van Oyen (eds) Materialising Roman Histories. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 65–72.
2018 (with P. Germoni, S. Keay and K. Strutt) Ostia beyond the Tiber: Recent Archaeological Discoveries in the Isola Sacra. In Ricerche su Ostia e it suo territorio: Atti del Terzo Seminario Ostiense (Roma, École française de Rome, 21-22 ottobre 2015). Publications de l’École française de Rome ISBN électronique: 9782728313334 [DOI: 10.4000/books.efr.3637]
2018 (with C. Dobinson, R. Ferraby, J. Lucas, and L. Wallace) Archaeological field-survey in the environs of Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum). Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 90, 29-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2018.1457615
2018 (with L. Verdonck, F. Vermeulen and A. Launaro) The Impact of High Resolution Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey on Understanding Roman Towns: case studies from Falerii Novi and Interamna Lirenas (Lazio, Italy), Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE international conference on metrology for archaeology and cultural heritage, Cassino, Italy - October 22-24, 2018, Cassino, pp. 249–54. (ISBN: 978-1-5386-5275-6).
2019 (with T. C. O'Connell, R. M. Ballantyne, S. Hamilton-Dyer, E. Margaritis, S. Oxford, W. Pantano and S. J. Keay) Living and dying at the Portus Romae, Antiquity 93, 719–34
2019 (with R. Ferraby) Aldborough Roman Town Layered Plan with site gazetteer [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.39574
2020 (with L. Verdonck, A. Launaro, and F. Vermeulen) 'Falerii Novi: the Ground-penetrating Radar survey of a Roman city', Antiquity 94, 705–23. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.82
2020 (with S. Keay and C. Smith) The Tiber Valley Project: an introduction, in H. Patterson, R. Witcher and H. Di Giuseppe The Changing Landscape of Rome’s Northern Hinterland: The British School at Rome’s Tiber Valley Project. Oxford: Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 70, 1–8.
2020 The Tiber Valley Project: retrospect and prospect, in H. Patterson, R. Witcher and H. Di Giuseppe The Changing Landscape of Rome’s Northern Hinterland: The British School at Rome’s Tiber Valley Project. Oxford: Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 70, 302–07.
2021 ‘Romanization’, social centralization and structures of imperial power, in O. Belvedere and J. Bergemann (eds) Imperium Romanum: Romanization between colonization and globalization. (Studi e Materiali 2) Palermo University Press, 63–74.
2021 Key new evidence of the Late Iron Age and Early Roman North, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 93, 176–83. DOI: 10.1080/00844276.2021.1917910
2022 Town planning from Falerii to Isurium: understanding and enhancing the archaeological evidence, in S. Greaves and A. Wallace-Hadrill (eds) Rome and the colonial city: rethinking the grid. Oxford: Oxbow, 267–88.
2022 Roman Catterick Re-Visited, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 94, 181–86 DOI: 10.1080/00844276.2022.2090702
2022 (Edited with S. Cottam) The Roman Glass from Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum), North Yorkshire by Jennifer Price†, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 94, 41–93. https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2022.2090707
2022 (With A. Wallace-Hadrill) Topography between two worlds: William Gell and Antonio Nibby, in D. Filippi (ed.) Rethinking the Roman City: the spatial turn and the archaeology of Roman Italy. London and New York: Routledge, 17–31.
2023 (With O. Aldred, A. Cooper, C. Evans, A. Davies, P. Chadwick, C. Green, M. Luke, E. Maw, & L. Wallace) Repetition in abundant landscapes: dynamic approaches to Iron Age and Roman settlement in England, Archaeological Journal 180, 3–34. DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2023.2208485
2023 (With M. Andrews, S. Bernard, E. Dodd, B. Fochetti, S. Kay, P. Liverani and F. Vermeulen) The Falerii Novi Project, Papers of the British School at Rome 91: 9–34. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068246223000053
2023 (With A. Launaro, L. Verdonck and F. Vermeulen) Ground-penetrating radar survey as the linchpin of a multidisciplinary approach to the study of two Roman cities in Lazio, in I. Haynesm T. Ravasi, S. Kay, S. Piro and P. Liverani (eds) Non-Intrusive Methodologies for Large Area Urban Research. Oxford: Archaeopress, 74–80. DOI 10.32028/9781803274461
2021 (With R. Ferraby) Report on the Excavations at Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum) 2016 (Building 4.8). Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.64184
2022 (With R. Ferraby) Report on the excavations at Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum), 2017: The Forum. Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.88000
2024 (With R. Ferraby) Report on the excavations at Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum), 2018: Building 2.17 – a Roman warehouse. Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.106998