University of Leicester

Graduate Student, School of Archaeology and Ancient History

Thesis Title: The African Boom? Evaluating Economic Growth in the Roman Province of Africa Proconsularis.

About

Submitted March 2012.

Specialisms:
Excavation and Excavation Management
The Archaeology of Roman North Africa
The Historiography of Political Economy and Marxism

Teaching Experience:
As a postgraduate student at the University of Leicester I have been involved with teaching 'Introduction to Roman History' to undergraduates, and conducting lectures and seminars to Masters students on various aspects of the economy of the Roman Empire.

Professional experience:
From 2003-2006 I worked for a number of commercial archaeological units, including Network Archaeology Ltd, Lindsey Archaeological Services, Gwynedd Archaeological Trust, North Pennines Archaeology Ltd, Archaeological Project Sevices and the Norfolk Archaeological Unit (Now NAU Archaeology). This period culminated in me directing several large-scale evaluations and excavations prior to the construction of the Ganstead to Asselby TRANSCO gas pipeline in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

2007-2008 I worked for NAU Archaeology as Assistant Project Officer. My 'papers' section includes links to several reports I wrote during that time. They are either archaeological evaluations or watching briefs that I conducted or was responsible for personally.

Education:
I gained my undergraduate degree in Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Reading in 2003.

In 2007 I gained a Master's Degree with distinction from the University of Leicester in Roman Archaeology. Following up on my field experience, my thesis looked at the Iron Age and Roman archaeology of Yorkshire, including some of the newly excavated rural sites I had been involved with.

Research Excavations:
From a young age I was involved with the large-scale excavations conducted by the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (SHARP). I have spent many summers (1999-2006) as part of this democratically and volunteer-run public archaeology project.  I was supervisor of the cemetery excavation from 2002 to 2004 (during which time I was involved in the excavation of the Sedgeford Hoard). I became a director of the project in 2005, undertaking a further evaluation of a Roman period farmstead and also overseeing the completion of the eleven-year excavation of the cemetery in 2006.

To see a short video about the project visit this link:

http://www.poppyland.co.uk/popup.php?v=1&ref=15

Or you can find the project website here:

http://ccgi.sedgeford.plus.com/blog/

In the summer of 2008 I supervised an area (SE corner) of the University of Reading's complex urban excavations at Silchester Roman town (Insula IX). As a member of the field school headed by Amanda Clarke and Prof. Mike Fulford, I was involved in teaching undergraduate students and members of the public archaeological excavation and recording.

I have been a member of the Desert Migrations Project headed by Prof. David Mattingly of the University of Leicester, conducting survey and excavation in the Libyan Sahara. In 2008 I joined the project as part of the excavation team. In 2009 and 2010 seasons I supervised the excavation of a 5th to 6th-century AD Garamantian mudbrick-tomb cemetery at Taqallit in southern Libya (TAG012, Libyan Studies 40 & 41). Most recently, I supervised the excavation of Tomb number 8 in the Royal Cemetery at Jerma (see profile picture, Libyan Studies 42 and Archaeology of the Fazzan Volume 3). Again, the publications I have contributed to during the course of this work are referenced in my 'papers' section.

Another research excavation that I have been involved with is the trial trenching project conducted by Dr John Creighton and Dr Tom Moore at Source de l'Yonne near Mont Beuvray (Bibracte Centre of European Iron Age Research in Burgundy, France). This again involved teaching university students excavation and recording.

Creighton, J. & Moore, T. 2008. Sondages au site des sources de l'Yonne, commune de Glux-en-Glenne. In Rapport Annuel d'activite 2007. Guichard, V. Glux-en-Glenne: Bibracte. 211-218.

This link includes further information on the project, a photo of me opening one of the trenches, and a plan and sections I drew of Roman building foundations from one of the trenches I supervised:

http://www.reading.ac.uk/archaeology/research/Projects/arch-JDC-Sources-Yonne.aspx