Archaeology research projects
Current research project includes.
An Atlas of Hillforts in Britain and Ireland *INCLUDE*
Funded by AHRC, this four-year collaboration between the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford will create an online, interactive database of Iron Age hillforts across Britain and Ireland.
Earthen Empire: Earth and turf building in the Roman North-West *INCLUDE*
Earthen Empire: Earth and Turf Building in the Roman North-West (RPG-2018-223) was a Leverhulme-funded research project directed by Professor Ben Russell (Classics) and Dr Chris Beckett (Engineering), which explored earthen building traditions in the Roman North.
Engineering the Byzantine water supply: procurement, construction and operation *INCLUDE*
A new project funded by the Leverhulme Trust will build on archaeological research completed nearly a decade ago by Prof James Crow, on the Water Supply System of Byzantine Constantinople.
‘Water in Istanbul: Rising to the challenge?’ *INCLUDE*
This project brings together archaeologists, historians, engineers and social scientists together to investigate the water management infrastructure of Istanbul at the transition from Byzantine to Ottoman rule and the period of population explosion beginning circa 1980.
Beyond Walls: Reassessing Iron Age and Roman Encounters in Northern Britain *INCLUDE*
This Leverhulme Trust-funded project (2021-24) aims to fundamentally transform our understanding of Rome’s impact on northern Britain.
Excavations at Kato Choria, Naxos *INCLUDE*
Excavations and fieldwork at the Byzantine settlement of Kato Choria, Naxos.
The archaeology of Constantinople and its hinterland *INCLUDE*
Professor Jim Crow's research on Constantinople's water supply systems and the 5th-century Anastasian Wall sheds new light on the Late Roman and Byzantine empires.
Çamlıbel Tarlası project *INCUDE*
Dr Ulf-Dietrich Schoop has been investigating a Late Chalcolithic village in the Anatolian mountains of central Turkey since 2007.
Excavations at Bourges *INCLUDE*
Since the mid-1990s, Ian Ralston’s major research fieldwork has taken place in and around the city of Bourges in Berry, France.