Calleva Atrebatum was an Iron Age oppidum, the capital of the Atrebates tribe. It then became a walled town in the Roman province of Britannia, at a major crossroads of the roads of southern Britain.
Sheppard Sunderland Frere, CBE, FSA, FBA was a British historian and archaeologist who studied the Roman Empire. He was a fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.
Michael Gordon Fulford, is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in the British Iron Age, Roman Britain and landscape archaeology. He has been Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading since 1993.
Martin John Millett, is a British archaeologist and academic. From 2001 to 2022, he was the Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and a professorial fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Since 2021, he has been president of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Kenneth Rainsbury Dark is a British archaeologist who works on the 1st millennium AD in Europe and the Roman and Byzantine Middle East, on the archaeology of religion, archaeological theory and methods, and on the relationship between the study of the past and contemporary global political, cultural and economic issues.
Anna Mary Hawthorn Kitson Clark,, married name Mary Chitty, was an English archaeologist, curator, and independent scholar. She specialised in the archaeology of Romano-British Northern England but was also involved in excavations outside the United Kingdom and the Roman period. Her 1935 work, A Gazetteer of Roman Remains in East Yorkshire, "remains one of the starting points for any study of the Romans in the north of England".
Lindsay Allason-Jones, is a British archaeologist and museum professional specialising in Roman material culture, Hadrian's Wall, Roman Britain, and the presence and role of women in the Roman Empire. She is currently a visiting fellow at Newcastle University.
Penelope 'Pim' Allison is an academic archaeologist specialising the Roman Empire and since 2015 has been professor of archaeology at the University of Leicester. She is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Lisa Ann Lodwick was a British archaeologist who studied charred, mineralised and waterlogged macroscopic plant remains, and used carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis to understand the crop husbandry practices of the ancient Romans.
Alex Mullen is an ancient historian, sociolinguist and Roman archaeologist. She is currently Professor of Ancient History and Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
John Creighton is a British archaeologist and assistant professor at the University of Reading. His research focuses on the Late Iron Age and Early Roman period of north-western Europe.
Britannia is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. It was established in 1970 and the first editor-in-chief was Sheppard Frere. The journal covers research on the province of Roman Britain, Iron Age and post-Roman Britain, and western provincial archaeology, as well as excavation reports. It was established because of the large increase in archaeological excavations, increased publication costs, and in order to establish coherence to the field of Roman Britain.
Lisa C. Nevett is a Professor of Classical Archaeology in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan, and Director of the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology. Prior to joining Michigan she was a Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University, 1996-2003 and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Archaeology Department at Durham University, 1993-1996.
Louise Revell is a Roman archaeologist, currently associate professor in Roman Studies at the University of Southampton. Revell's research focuses on provincial archaeology of the Western Roman Empire.
Susan Greaney is a British archaeologist specialising in the study of British prehistory. She is a senior properties historian with English Heritage. She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 27 June 2019.
Mary Lewis is Professor of Bioarchaeology at the University of Reading. After completing a PhD in bioarchaeology at the University of Bradford in 1999, Lewis went on to lecture at Bournemouth University (2000–2004) before moving to the University of Reading in 2004. She conducted the first osteological study of a body which has been hanged, drawn, and quartered. Lewis has held editorial roles with the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, International Journal of Paleopathology, and the American Journal of Biological Anthropology.
Nina Crummy is a British archaeologist and artefact specialist, especially of Roman material culture.
Dr Ruth Shaffrey is an archaeologist.
Eleri H Cousins is an archaeologist and Lecturer in Roman History at the University of Lancaster.
Lacey M Wallace is an archaeologist and Senior Lecturer in Roman History and Material Culture at the University of Lincoln.
