Professor Barry Burnham MA, PhD (Cambridge), FSA., MIFA.

Contact Details

School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology
E-mail: b.burnham@trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk

Job Title

Professor of Archaeology

Role in the University

Professor of Archaeology

Background

Main research interests

• Urbanisation in Roman Britain
• Native and Roman interaction in the north-west provinces
• Roman frontiers and urban studies
• Roman mining

Barry's most recent research has been concentrated on a re-examination of the complex multi-period gold-mining site at Dolaucothi and the associated Roman fort at Pumsaint in south-west Wales.  This culminated in the production of a monograph covering a series of large-scale excavations and surveys undertaken between 1987 and 1999, published by Oxbow Books in 2004.  Further work is now been planned for investigating the east side of the fort and the leat systems serving the site.  Over the next three years attention will also turn to two other projects:  (i) compiling the excavation report on a multi-disciplinary investigation undertaken at a local hillfort (Caer Cadwgan) by members of the Department of Archaeology between 1984 and 1989; (ii) producing an updated version of the 1969 Jarrett volume on The Roman Frontier in Wales (with J.L. Davies), to take advantage of much new recent work on the forts, vici and roads of Wales, in conjunction with the four Welsh Archaeological Trusts and others.  Work will still continue as Compiler of the relevant sections in the annual ‘Roman Britain in 200X’ published in the journal Britannia.

Publications

Forthcoming

200X	Gazetteer entries on Agricola, the Antonine Wall, Bath, Caerwent, Carmarthen, Hadrian’s Wall, and Romano-British Towns, in Snyder, C. (ed.), The Early Peoples of Britain and Ireland: An Encyclopedia, Greenwood Publishing

2007

(a)	Sections on Wales, Hadrian’s Wall and Northern Britain in ‘Roman Britain in 2006  Sites Explored’ (eds B.C. Burnham, F. Hunter and P. Booth), for Britannia 38 (2007), 242-54, 260-72
(b)	Review of Yule, B. 2005 A Prestigious Roman Building Complex on the Southwark Waterfront:  Excavations at Winchester Palace, 1983-90, MOLAS Monograph 23, in Britannia 38 (2007), 402
(c)	Review of Howell, R.  2006 Searching for the Silures: An Iron Age Tribe in South-East Wales, in The Welsh History Review 23, 4 (2007), 112-14.

 

2006

(a)	‘Sections on Wales, Hadrian’s Wall and Northern Britain in ‘Roman Britain in 2005  Sites Explored’ (eds B.C. Burnham, F. Hunter and A. Fitzpatrick), for Britannia 37 (2006), 370-84, 389-405
(b)	Review of Speller, E. 2003  Following Hadrian:  a Second-Century Journey through the Roman Empire, in The Classical Bulletin 81.2, 235-36
(c)	Review of Hill, P.R. 2004  The Construction of Hadrian’s Wall, BAR 375, for American Journal of Archaeology 110.1, 183-84
(d)	Review of Dalwood, H. and Edwards, R.  2004 Excavations at Deansway, Worcester, 1988-89: Romano-British small town to late medieval city, for Britannia 37 (2006), 503-04

2005

(a)	‘Recent geophysical survey at the fort and gold-mining complex of Dolaucothi-Pumsaint (Wales)’, in Zsolt (Ed.) Proceedings of the XIX Limes Congress, Hungary 2003, 891-900
(b)	Sections on Wales, Hadrian’s Wall and Northern Britain in ‘Roman Britain in 2004  Sites Explored’ (eds B.C. Burnham, F. Hunter and A. Fitzpatrick), for Britannia 36 (2005), 384-92, 402-24
(c)	Review of Cowan, C. 2003  Urban Development in North-West Roman Southwark, MOLAS Monograph 16;  Hammer, F. 2003  Industry in North-West Roman Southwark, MOLAS Monograph 17, in Britannia 36 (2005), 509-10

2004 

(a)	with H.B. Burnham Dolaucothi-Pumsaint: Survey and Excavations at a Roman Gold-Mining Complex, 1987-1999,Oxbow Monograph, xvi and 339pp
(b)	Sections on Wales, Hadrian’s Wall and Northern Britain in ‘Roman Britain in 2003  Sites Explored’ (eds B.C. Burnham, F. Hunter and A. Fitzpatrick), in Britannia 35 (2004), 254-65, 271-86
(c)	Review of Wilson, P.R. 2002  Cataractonium. Roman Catterick and its hinterland. Excavations and research, 1958-1997, in Archaeological Journal 160 (2003), 298-99

2003

(a)	‘Investigating an “industrial small town”; recent work at Dolaucothi-Pumsaint’, in Wilson, P. (ed.) The Archaeology of Roman Towns:  Studies in honour of John Wacher, 13-21
(b)	‘Chairman’s Preface: “Becoming Roman” in south-west Wales’, an introduction to James, H.  Excavations in Roman Carmarthen, 1978-1993, Britannia Monograph 20, xx-xxii
(c)	with H.B. Burnham Archaeology in Wales 42 (2002), 200pp
(d)	Sections on Wales, Hadrian’s Wall and Northern Britain in ‘Roman Britain in 2002  Sites Explored’ (eds B.C. Burnham, F. Hunter and A. Fitzpatrick), in Britannia 34 (2003), 294-99, 306-22
(e)	Review of Manning, W.H. 2001  Roman Wales:  A Pocket Guide, in Studia Celtica 36 (2002), 163-64
(f)	Review of Anderson, A.S., Wacher, J.S. and Fitzpatrick, A.P. 2001  The Romano-British ‘Small Town’ at Wanborough, Wiltshire, in Archaeological Journal 159 (2002), 329-30
(g)	Review of Aldhouse-Green, M. and Webster, P. (eds) 2002  Artefacts and Archaeology: Aspects of the Celtic and Roman World, in Archaeology in Wales 42 (2002), 182-83

2002

(a)	with H.B. Burnham Archaeology in Wales 41 (2001), 192pp
(b)	Sections on Wales, Hadrian’s Wall and Northern Britain in ‘Roman Britain in 2001  Sites Explored’ (eds B.C. Burnham, F. Hunter and A. Fitzpatrick), in Britannia 33 (2002), 276-83, 290-307
(c)	Review of Rorison, M. 2000  Vici  in Roman Gaul, in Britannia 33 (2002), 399

2001

(a)	with J.R. Collis, C. Dobinson, C. Haselgrove and M. Jones ‘Themes for Urban Research:  the late Iron-Age and early Roman period, c.100 BC to AD 200’, in James, S. and Millett, M. (eds) Britons and Romans:  advancing an archaeological agenda, 67-76
(b)	with H.B. Burnham Archaeology in Wales 40 (2000), 180pp
(c)	Sections on Wales, Hadrian’s Wall and Northern Britain in ‘Roman Britain in 2000  Sites Explored’ (eds B.C. Burnham, A. Fitzpatrick and L.F. Keppie), in Britannia  32 (2001), 312-18, 322-350, and pl.XIII

2000

(a)	with J. Pullinger, A. Rotherham and P. White Section VIII:  Roman Pottery Illustrations, in Alexander, J. and Pullinger, J. Roman Cambridge:  Excavations on Castle Hill 1956-1988, Proc. Cambridge Antiquarian Society 88 (1999), 145-99
(b)	with H.B. Burnham Archaeology in Wales 39 (1999), 176pp
(c)	Sections on Wales, Hadrian’s Wall and Northern Britain in ‘Roman Britain in 1999  Sites Explored’ (eds B.C. Burnham, A.S. Esmonde Cleary and L.F. Keppie), in Britannia  31 (2000), 372-79, 385-401, and pl.XXIB
(d)	with H.B. Burnham and D. Jordan Geophysical survey on the east side of the fort at Pumsaint, 1999 (Lampeter), 14pp
(e)	Review of Farrar, L. 1998  Ancient Roman Gardens, in The Classical Review 50, No 1 (2000), 220-22
(f)	Review of Zanker, P. 1998  Pompeii:  Public and Private Life, in The Classical Review 50, No 2 (2000), 540-42
(g)	with H.B. Burnham ‘Pumsaint (SN 656 405)’ Archaeology in Wales 39 (1999), 98-9