Staff Profile:Dr John Creighton
- Name:
- Dr John Creighton
- Job Title:
- Associate Professor
- Responsibilities:
- Areas of Interest:
- Imagery and the negotiation of power
- Coinage and commodification
- Urban landscapes and social memory
- Ancient viticulture and the wine trade
Postgraduate supervision
John is currently supervisor for:
- Sarah Downum: Visual Culture and 'decoration' in Iron Age Britain: seeing beyond metal.
John is happy to discuss proposals for postgraduate research in any area of Iron Age or Roman studies, particularly areas involving aspects of coinage, economy, urban development, landscape survey and geophysical prospection. For further information, please contact Dr Creighton.
- Research groups / Centres:
Objects, Materials and People Research Cluster
Landscape, Climate and Lived Environment Research Cluster
Key Facts:
Dr. John Creighton's research centres upon Later Iron Age and Early Roman NW Europe. His books include: 'Silchester: changing visions of a Roman Town' (2016); 'Britannia: the creation of a Roman Province' (2005); 'Coins & Power in Late Iron Age Britain' (2000), Celti: the archaeology of a Hispano-Roman Town in Baetica (with Simon Keay and Jose Remesal, 2001), and he has co-edited the volume Roman Germany: Studies in Cultural Interaction (1999).
His fieldwork has included work in Britain, France, Germany and Spain. Including projects with Colin Haselgrove and Tom Moore, examining the landscape in the vicinity of the Iron Age oppidum of Mont Beuvray (Bibract) and the Roman town of Autun in Burgundy; and also a large fieldsurvey and digitisation project of the Roman town and hinterland of Silchester (Hampshire) leading to a major reinterpretation and synthesis of the site.
John is currently engaged on a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2020-22) 'Money and the rise of inequality and the market in northern Europe' which sees him returning to writing about the nature of coinage and society in the Iron Age and Roman period.
John was seconded from 2005-10 to direct the University's Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, in a project enhancing linkage between teaching and research, both at Reading and across the HE sector. He initiated the University's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme. He is a National Teaching Fellow.
He was Director the Society of Antiquaries of London (2010-16) and has been a trustee of the Royal Archaeological Institute and the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, and has sat on the grant awarding committees of all those organisations.
Research Projects:
- Arroux Valley (Burgundy)
- Sources de l'Yonne
- Silchester mapping project
- Money and society
- Urbanism in Spain (1987-93)
Teaching:
John teaches at all levels from Part 1 to Masters, including modules on Iron Age, Roman and the nature of money.
- Publications:
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YNumber of items: 20.
2017
- Creighton, J. and Allen, M. (2017) Fluxgate gradiometry survey at North Leigh Roman Villa, Oxfordshire. Britannia, 48. pp. 279-287. ISSN 0068-113X doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X17000022
2016
- Creighton, J. and Fry, R. (2016) Silchester: changing visions of a Roman town. Integrating geophysics and archaeology - the results of the Silchester Mapping Project 2005-10. Britannia Monograph Series, 28. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, London, pp448. ISBN 9780907764427
2014
- Creighton, J. (2014) The supply and movement of Denarii in Roman Britain. Britannia, 45. pp. 121-163. ISSN 1753-5352 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X14000282
2013
- John, J. and Creighton, J. (2013) 'In practice it doesn't always work out like that.' Undergraduate experiences in a research community of practice. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 37 (6). pp. 750-768. ISSN 1469-9486 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2012.684037
- Moore, T., Braun, A., Creighton, J., Cripps, L., Haupt, P., Klenner, I., Nouvel, P., Ponroy, C. and Schonfelder, M. (2013) Oppida, agglomerations and suburbia: the bibracte environs and new perspectives on late Iron Age urbanism in central-eastern France. European Journal of Archaeology, 16 (3). pp. 491-517. ISSN 1741-2722 doi: https://doi.org/10.1179/1461957113Y.0000000034
- Clarke, A., Creighton, J. and Eckardt, H. (2013) Introduction: Michael Fulford and Roman Silchester. In: Eckardt, H. and Rippon, S. (eds.) Living and Working in the Roman World, Essays in Honour of Michael Fulford. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series, 95. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, pp. 19-30.
2011
- Creighton, J. (2011) Atzbach geophysical survey and excavation. In: von Abegg, A., Walter, D. and Biegert, S. (eds.) Die Germanen und der Limes: Ausgrabungen im Vorfeld des Wetterau-Limes im Raum Wetzlar-Gießen. Römisch-Germanische Forschungen (67). Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, pp. 240-243. ISBN 9783805343855
- Creighton, J. (2011) Krofdorf geophysical survey. In: von Abegg, A., Walter, D. and Biegert, . (eds.) Die Germanen und der Limes: Ausgrabungen im Vorfeld des Wetterau-Limes im Raum Wetzlar-Gießen. Römisch-Germanische Forschungen (67). Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, pp. 205-206. ISBN 9783805343855
- Phillips, T. J. and Creighton, J. (2011) Employing people with disability: good practice guidance for archaeologists. IFA Professional Paper (9). Institute for Archaeologists, Reading. ISBN 9780948393198
- John, J. and Creighton, J. (2011) Researcher development: the impact of undergraduate research opportunity programmes on students in the UK. Studies in Higher Education, 36 (7). pp. 781-797. ISSN 0307-5079 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03075071003777708
2009
- Creighton, J. (2009) Herod's contemporaries in Britain and the West. In: Jacobson, D.M. and Kokkinos, N. (eds.) Herod and Augustus: Papers Presented at the IJS Conference 21st-23rd June 2005. Studies in Judea (6). Institute of Jewish Studies, London, pp. 361-381.
2008
- Creighton, J., Haselgrove, C., Lowether, P. and Moore, T. (2008) Becoming Roman in southern Burgundy: A field survey between Autun and Bibracte in the Arroux Valley (Saône-et-Loire), 2000-2003. Internet Archaeology, 25.
- Creighton, J. and Moore, T. (2008) Sondages au site des Sources de l'Yonne, commune de Glux-en-Glenne. In: UNSPECIFIED Rapport Annuel d'Activité 2007. Centre archéologique européen du Mont Beuvray, Glux-en-Glenne, pp210.
2007
- Creighton, J., Haupt, P., Klenner, I., Moore, T., Nouvel, P., Christophe, P. and Schönfelder, M. (2007) Prospectiones autor de Bibracte : Nouvelles méthodes et nouveaux résultats. Association Francaise pur l'Etude de l'Age du Fer, Bulletin, 25. pp. 17-20.
- Creighton, J., Haupt, P., Klenner, I., Moore, T. and Schönfelder, M. (2007) Site des sources de l'Yonne, commune du Glux-en-Glenne. In: Bibracte: Rapport Annuel d'Activite 2006. Centre archéologique européen, Glux-en Glenne, pp. 192-199.
2006
- Creighton, J. (2006) Britannia: The Creation of a Roman Province. Routledge, Abingdon, pp180.
- Williams, M. and Creighton, J. (2006) Shamanic practices and trance imagery in the Iron Age. In: de Jersey, P. (ed.) Celtic Coinage: new discoveries, new discussions. BAR International Series, Oxford, pp. 49-60.
2005
- Creighton, J. (2005) Cattle, community and corrals. Archaeological Dialogues, 12 (2). pp. 132-135. ISSN 1478-2294 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S138020380622186X
- Creighton, J. (2005) Gold, ritual and kingship. In: Wigg-Wolf, D. and Haselgrove, C.C. (eds.) Iron Age Coinage and Ritual Practices. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, pp. 69-84.
- Creighton, J. (2005) Links between the classical imagery in post-Caesarian Belgica and the rest of the Roman world. In: Metzler, J. and Wigg, D. (eds.) Die Kelten und Rom: neue numismatische Forschungen. Studien zu Fundmünzen der Antike (SFMA) (19). Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur , Mainz-am-Rhein, pp. 87-108.
Other Publications
John Creighton (2011) Review of 'Becoming Roman, Being Gallic, Staying British' by S. Trow, S. James and T. Moore. In Britannia, volume 42, pp 491-492. doi: 10.1017/S0068113X11000328
Creighton, J. (2000) Coins and Power in Late Iron Age Britain, Cambridge University Press, 249pp
Keay, S. Creighton, J. & Remesal, J. (2000) Celti. The Archaeology of a Hispano-Roman Town in Baetica. Survey and Excavations 1987-1992. Oxbow Books: Oxford.254pp
Creighton, J. & Wilson, R.J.A. (Eds.) (1999) Roman Germany: Studies in Cultural Interaction. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 32: Portsmouth, Rhode Island. 248pp
- Qualifications:
- BA PhD (Durham) FSA
