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Outreach

outreach at kibworthOur Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. We've also worked with the army on Project Nightingale at Caerwent. Find out more on what we do! And hear about the places we have visited last year, read some testimonials, and see what we can bring to your school to help bring the past alive!

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

collapsed Roman basilica wall at Leicester

Read about the city's archaeology in the new publication Visions of Ancient Leicester

Contact the School

School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

Key Contacts

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Publications

Monographs only

(with D. Stone and N. Ben Lazreg). Leptiminus (Lamta): a Roman port city in Tunisia, Report no. 3, the Urban Survey. Ann Arbor, JRA Suppl. Pp. 494 + 164 pp gazetteers on CD

Imperialism, Power and Identity Experiencing the Roman Empire. Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xxiv and 342.

(with C.M. Daniels, J.N. Dore, D. Edwards and J. Hawthorne). The Archaeology of Fazzan. Volume 3, Excavations carried out by C.M. Daniels. London, 2010. Pp. xxvi and 574.

(with A. Orejas and M. Clavel-Lévêque eds). From Present to Past through Landscape. CSIC, Madrid, 2009. Pp. 288.

(with G Barker, D Gilbertson et al.) Archaeology and Desertification: the Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey, southern Jordan. Oxbow, CBRL, Oxford (in press).

(with C.M. Daniels, J.N. Dore, D. Edwards and J. Hawthorne). The Archaeology of Fazzan. Volume 2, Site Gazetteer, Pottery and Other Survey Finds. London (2007). Pp xxx and 522. (edited by D Mattingly).

An Imperial Possession

(edited with G Shipley, J Vanderspoel and L Foxhall). The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2006). Pp. xliv and 966.

An Imperial Possession. Britain in the Roman Empire. Penguin History of Britain Series. London (2006). Pp. xvi and 622. (Paperback edition 2007 with minor corrections).

(edited with S McLaren, E Savage, Y al-Fasatwi and K Gadgood). The Libyan Desert: Natural Resources and Cultural Heritage. Society for Libyan Studies, London (2006). Pp. x and 338.

(with CM Daniels, JN Dore, D Edwards and J Hawthorne) The Archaeology of Fazzan: Volume 1 (Synthesis, London, 2003), pp. xxvi and 430, 460 figures (edited by D. Mattingly).

(with L Stirling and N Ben Lazreg). Leptiminus (Lamta): Report no. 2, The East Baths, Cemeteries, Kilns, Venus Mosaic, Site Museum and other studies Portsmouth, RI, JRA Suppl. 40. (2001), pp. 464.

(with N Ben Lazreg and contributions from others). Leptiminus (Lamta): a Roman port city in Tunisia, Report no. 1. Ann Arbor (1992), pp. 333

(edited with J Salmon). Economies beyond Agriculture in the Classical World. (Leicester Nottingham Ancient History Seminar Series, Routledge. (2001 [2000]), pp. xii and 324

(edited with M. Gillings and J. van Dalen). Geographical Information Systems and Landscape Archaeology. (Mediterranean Landscape Archaeology 3, Oxbow). (1999). Pp. xxii and 137.

(edited with D Potter). Life, Death and Entertainment in Ancient Rome. (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press). (1999), pp. xiv and 353

(edited). Dialogues in Roman Imperialism. Power, Discourse and Discrepant Experience in the Roman Empire (Journal of Roman Archaeology, Suppl. vol 23), Portsmouth, RI (1997), pp. 200

(with GWW Barker, DD Gilbertson and GDB Jones). Farming the Desert The UNESCO Libyan Valleys Archaeological Survey. Volume 1, Synthesis. (principal editor, G Barker), UNESCO, Soc. for Libyan Studies, Paris/London (1996), pp. xx and 404; Volume 2, Gazetteer and Pottery (principal editor, DJ Mattingly), UNESCO, Soc. for Libyan Studies, Paris/London (1996), pp. xxii and 394

Tripolitania. Batsford, London (1995), pp. xxii and 266

(with G.D.B. Jones). An Atlas of Roman Britain  Blackwell, Oxford and New York (1990) Pp x and 342, plus over 270 maps, figures, plates. (Revised paperback edition 1993; reprinted edition, Oxbow books 2002).

(edited with J.A. Lloyd). Libya. Research in Archaeology, Environment, History and Society 1969-1989.  Society for Libyan Studies monograph (1989). Pp viii and 268.

(edited with D.J. Buck). Town and Country in Roman Tripolitania. Papers in Honour of Olwen Hackett. BAR S274, Oxford (1985). Pp 294.