Staff Profile:Ms Amanda Clarke

Name:

Ms Amanda Clarke

Job Title:

Research Fellow, Silchester Field Director

Responsibilities:

Areas of Interest:

• Archaeological field method and techniques

Research groups / Centres:

Social Archaeology Research Group

Key Facts

Amanda Clarke is a field archaeologist appointed by Reading University to help train its students in all aspects of field archaeology. She is Site Director for the Department of Archaeologys training excavation at the Roman town of Silchester, and for fieldwork in Pompeii, Italy. When not in the field she is involved in the post-excavation work for these projects. She has spent many years in the field, on sites all over the world including Norway, Beirut, Jamaica, Belize and the northern and western isles of Scotland. She has worked most recently for York Archaeological Trust on many of their large urban sites, as well as directing two seasons of work on the early Christian site of Whithorn in Galloway. She also works as a Teaching Fellow for the Department of Archaeology at Boston University on the student training excavations in Belize, Central America.

Publications:

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Jump to: 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003

Number of items: 14.

2011

• Fulford, M. and Clarke, A. (2011) Silchester: city in transition. The mid-Roman occupation of Insula IX c. A.D. 125-250/300. A report on excavations undertaken since 1997. Britannia Monograph (25). Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, London, UK, pp544. ISBN 9780907764373

2010

• Fulford, M., O'Riordan, E. J., Clarke, A. and Rains, M. (2010) Silchester Roman Town: developing virtual research practice 1997-2008. In: Bodard, G. and Mahony, S. (eds.) Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity. Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, pp. 15-34. ISBN 9780754677734
• Cook, S., Banerjea, R. Y., Marshall, L. J., Fulford, M., Clarke, A. and van Zwieten, C. (2010) Concentrations of copper, zinc and lead as indicators of hearth usage at the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, Hampshire, UK). Journal of Archaeological Science, 37 (4). pp. 871-879. ISSN 0305-4403

2009

• Eckardt, H., Clarke, A. S., Hay, S., Macaulay, S., Ryan, P., Thornley, D. M. and Timby, J. (2009) The Bartlow Hills in context: report on recent excavations. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, XCVIII. pp. 47-64.

2008

• Warwick, C., Fisher, C., Terras, M., Baker, M., Clarke, A., Fulford, M., Grove, M., O'Riordan, E. and Rains, M. (2008) iTrench: a study of user reactions to the use of information technology in field archaeology. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 24 (2). pp. 211-223. ISSN 0268-1145

2007

• Clarke, A., Fulford, M.G., Rains, M. and Tootell, K. (2007) Silchester Roman Town Insula IX: the development of an urban property c. AD 40-50 - c. AD 250. Internet Archaeology, 21. ISSN 1363-5387

2006

• Fulford, M., Clarke, A. and Eckardt, H. (2006) Life and Labour in Late Roman Silchester: Excavations in Insula IX from 1997. Britannia Monograph 22. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, London.

2005

• Clarke, A., Eckardt, H., Fulford, M., Rains, M. and Tootell, K. (2005) Silchester Roman Town: the Insula IX Town Life Project: the Late Roman archaeology. University of Reading.
• Cook, S. R., Clarke, A. S. and Fulford, M. G. (2005) Soil geochemistry and detection of early Roman precious metal and copper alloy working at the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, Hampshire, UK). Journal of Archaeological Science, 32 (5). pp. 805-812. ISSN 0305-4403

2004

• Stewart, R., Clarke, A. and Fulford, M. (2004) Promoting inclusion: facilitating access to the Silchester 'town life' project. World Archaeology, 36 (2). pp. 220-235. ISSN 0043-8243
• Clarke, A. and Fulford, M. (2004) Silchester Roman Town. The Insula IX 'Town Life' Project. Interim Report 6. University of Reading, Department of Archaeology, Reading, pp22.

2003

• Clarke, A., Fulford, M. and Rains, M. (2003) Nothing to hide - online database publication and the Silchester Town Life Project. In: Doerr, M. and Sarris, A. (eds.) CAA 2002. The Digital Heritage of Archaeology. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. Proceedings of the 30th Conference, Heraklion, Crete, April 2002. Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Greece, pp. 401-404.
• Clarke, A. and Fulford, M. (2003) Silchester Roman Town: the Insula IX 'Town Life' Project. Interim Report on the 2002 Season. University of Reading, Department of Archaeology, Reading, pp17.
• Cook, S. R., Fulford, M., Clarke, A. and Pearson, C. (2003) Soil geochemical analyses as an indication of metal working at the excavation of a house in the Roman City at Silchester (UK). Journal de Physique IV, 107 (Part 1). pp. 319-321. ISSN 1155-4339

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Qualifications:

BA (Durham); FSA