Staff Profile:Professor John Allen

Name:

Professor J.R.L. Allen

Job Title:

Emeritus Professor

Responsibilities:

Areas of Interest:

• Geoarchaeology
• Sedimentology especially of the coastal zone
• The archaeology of building stone

Research groups / Centres:

Scientific Archaeology  Research Group

Publications:

Y

Jump to: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 1995

Number of items: 24.

2008

• Allen, J. R. L. and Dark, P. (2008) Seasonality of modern pollen and sediment deposition in an estuarine context: the Severn Estuary Levels, southwest England. Journal of Quaternary Science, 23 (3). pp. 213-228. ISSN 0267-8179 doi: 10.1002/jqs.1138

2007

• Allen, J. R. L., Fulford, M.G. and Todd, J.A. (2007) Burnt Kimmeridgian shale at Early Roman Silchester, south-east England, and the Roman Poole-Purbeck complex-agglomerated geomaterials complex. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 26 (2). pp. 167-191. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2007.00279.x
• Brown, A. and Allen, J. R. L. (2007) Recent finds of flintwork, Oldbury Flats, south Gloucestershire. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 18. pp. 105-110.
• Allen, J. R. L., Lamb, A. L. and Dark, P. (2007) Seasonality of delta C-13 and C/N ratios in modern and mid-holocene sediments in the Severn Estuary levels, SW Britain. Holocene, 17 (1). pp. 139-144. ISSN 0959-6836 doi: 10.1177/0959683607073296

2006

• Allen, J. R. L. and Haslett, S. K. (2006) Granulometric characterization and evaluation of annually banded mid-Holocene estuarine silts, Welsh Severn Estuary (UK): coastal change, sea level and climate. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25 (13-14). pp. 1418-1446. ISSN 0277-3791 doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.12.009
• Allen, J. R. L., Haslett, S. K. and Rinkel, B. E. (2006) Holocene tidal palaeochannels, Severn Estuary Levels, UK: a search for granulometric and foraminiferal criteria. Proceedings of the Geologists Association, 117. pp. 329-344. ISSN 0016-7878

2005

• Allen, J. R. L. (2005) Fishtraps in the middle Severn Estuary: air photographic evidence from the mid twentieth century. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 15 (for 2004). pp. 31-48.
• Allen, J. R. L. (2005) Roman and medieval-early modern building stones in southeast Wales: the Sudbrook Sandstone and Dolomitic Conglomerate (Triassic). The Monmouthshire Antiquary, 21. pp. 21-44.
• Dark, P. and Allen, J. R. L. (2005) Seasonal deposition of Holocene banded sediments in the Severn Estuary Levels (southwest Britain): palynological and sedimentological evidence. Quaternary Science Reviews, 24 (1-2). pp. 11-33. ISSN 0277-3791 doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.08.001

2004

• Allen, J. R. L., Bell, M.G. and Scales, R.R.L. (2004) Animal and human footprint tracks in archaeology: description and significance. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 14. pp. 55-68.
• Allen, J. R. L. (2004) Annual textural banding in Holocene estuarine silts, Severn Estuary Levels (SW Britain): patterns, cause and implications. Holocene, 14 (4). pp. 536-552. ISSN 0959-6836 doi: 10.1191/0959683604hl730rp
• Allen, J. R. L. (2004) Carrstone in Norfolk buildings. Distribution, use associated and influences. British Archaeological Reports, British Series, pp127.
• Allen, J. R. L. (2004) Chapel (Tump) Farm, Undy, Caldicot Level: an intertidal secondary medieval site and its implications. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 15 . pp. 71-80.
• Allen, J. R. L. and Fulford, M.G. (2004) Early Roman mosaic materials in southern Britain, with particular reference to Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum): a regional geological perspective. Britannia, 35. pp. 9-38. ISSN 0068-113X
• Turner, R.C., Allen, J. R. L., Coldstream, N., Jenkins-Jones, C., Morris, R.K. and Priestley, S.G. (2004) The Great Tower, Chepstow Castle, Wales. Antiquaries Journal, 84. pp. 223-318. ISSN 0003-5815
• Allen, J. R. L. and Thornley, D. M. (2004) Laser granulometry of Holocene estuarine silts: effects of hydrogen peroxide treatment. Holocene, 14 (2). pp. 290-295. ISSN 0959-6836 doi: 10.1191/0959683604hl681rr
• Bell, M., Allen, J. R. L., Buckley, S., Dark, P. and Nayling, N. (2004) Mesolithic to Neolithic coastal environmental change: excavations at Goldcliff East, 2003 and research at Redwick. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 14. pp. 1-26.
• Lawrence, D. S. L., Allen, J. R. L. and Havelock, G. M. (2004) Salt marsh morphodynamics: An investigation of tidal flows and marsh channel equilibrium. Journal of Coastal Research, 20 (1). pp. 301-316. ISSN 0749-0208
• Allen, J. R. L. (2004) The building stone at the Roman religious complex, Lydney Park, Gloucestershire: character and fate. Archaeological Journal, 160. pp. 229-233.
• Allen, J. R. L. (2004) A medieval pottery assemblage from Magor Pill (Abergwaitha), Caldicot Level: comparative Roman to early-modern trade around the Severn Estuary and beyond. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 14. pp. 87-110.

2003

• Bell, M., Allen, J. R. L., Buckley, S., Dark, P. and Haslett, S.K. (2003) Mesolithic to Neolithic coastal environmental change: excavations at Goldcliff East, 2002. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 13. pp. 1-29.
• Allen, J. R. L., Rose, E.J. and Fulford, M. (2003) Reuse of Roman stone in the Reedham area of East Norfolk: intimations of a possible 'lost' Roman fort. Britannia, 34. pp. 129-141.
• Allen, J. R. L. (2003) An eclectic morphostratigraphic model for the sedimentary response to Holocene sea-level rise in northwest Europe. Sedimentary Geology, 161 (1-2). pp. 31-54. ISSN 0037-0738 doi: 10.1016/s0037-0738(02)00394-9

1995

• Woolnough, S. J., Allen, J. R. L. and Wood, W.L. (1995) An exploratory numerical model of sediment deposition over tidal saltmarshes. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 41 (5). pp. 515-543. ISSN 0272-7714 doi: 10.1016/0272-7714(95)90025-X

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Qualifications:

BSc, DSc, DSc, Hon LLD; FSA; FRS

Professor Allen is closely involved in the teaching of the Reading MSc in Geoarchaeology, and also shares in the supervision of some geoarchaeology related PhD projects.

Teaching

MSc in Geoarchaeology