Staff Profile:Professor Michael Fulford CBE FBA

Name:

Professor Michael Fulford

Job Title:

Professor in Archaeology

Responsibilities:

• Director, Silchester Town Life Project
• Chair, Committee for the Museum of English Rural Life
• Chair, Comittee for Museums, Archives and Collections
• Chair, Forum for Rural Research

Areas of Interest:

• Roman urban archaeology, economy and trade, material culture, landscape and technology

Research groups / Centres:

Social Archaeology Research Group

Key Facts:

Professor Michael Fulford was promoted Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading in 1988, following previous appointments as Reader (1985) and Lecturer (1974). He has served as Dean of the former Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences (1994-1997) and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Teaching and Learning (1998-2004). He chairs the University's Committee for the Museum of English Rural Life, the Committee for Museums, Archives and Collections, and the Forum for Rural Research. His principal research interests are in Roman archaeology, particularly in the fields of urbanism, economy, material culture, technology and trade.

He directs the Roman Town Insula IX 'Town Life' Project, which is in its sixteenth year and is currently supported by several grants, including the Calleva Foundation and the Headley Trust, and other sources of funding:

• The Leverhulme Trust is funding a major project: Evaluation of PPG 16, 'grey' literature and the rural settlement of Roman Britain, 2012-15, in collaboration with Professor Julian Richards and the Archaeology Data Service, University of York. The project also involves a further major collaboration with Cotswold Archaeology with funding from English Heritage.
• The AHRC is funding a major research project, the Samian pottery industries of Roman Gaul (2008-12) in collaboration with the University of Leeds and the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz, Germany.
• The JISC recently funded VERA (Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology) in collaboration with the School of Systems Engineering at Reading, University College London and the York Archaeological Trust.

He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1994 and is currently Treasurer and Vice-President, having previously served as Chair of the Committee for Academy-Sponsored Schools and Institutes. He is Chair of the Roman Research Trust and Vice-President of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. He was Chair of RAE 2008 Main Panel H (Architecture and the Built Environment, Town & Country Planning, Geography and Environmental Studies, Archaeology).

Professor Michael Fulford was appointed CBE in the New Years honours 2011.

Publications:

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Number of items: 60.

2013

• Fulford, M. (2013) Gallo-Roman sigillata : fresh approaches, fresh challenges, fresh questions. In: Fulford, M. and Durham, E. (eds.) Seeing red : new economic and social perspectives on terra sigillata. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies supplement (102). University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, London, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9781905670475
• Fulford, M. and Durham, E., eds. (2013) Seeing red: new economic and social perspectives on terra sigillata. University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, London, pp446. ISBN 9781905670475

2012

• Fulford, M., ed. (2012) Silchester and the study of Romano-British urbanism. JRA Supplementary Series No. 90. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, pp280. ISBN 978188782990 (JRA Supplement)
• Fulford, M. (2012) Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, Hampshire, UK): an early medieval extinction. In: Christie, N. and Augenti, A. (eds.) Urbes Extinctae. Archaeologies of Abandoned Classical Towns. Ashgate, pp. 331-351. ISBN 9780754665625
• Fulford, M. (2012) Introduction. In: Fulford, M. (ed.) Silchester and the Study of Romano-British Urbanism. JRA Supplementary Series (90). Journal of Roman Archaeology, pp. 7-13.
• Hartley, B. R., Dickinson, B. M., Dannell, G. B., Fulford, M., Mees, A. W., Tyers, P. A. and Wilkinson, R. H. (2012) Names on terra sigillata. An index of makers' stamps & signatures on Gallo-Roman terra sigillata (Samian Ware), Vol. 9, T to XIMUS. University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, London, p. 466. ISBN 9781905670390
• Fulford, M. (2012) Urban essentials: perspectives on change in a residential insula at Silchester (early 2nd to 5thc. A.D.). In: Fulford, M. (ed.) Silchester and the Study of Romano-British Urbanism. JRA Supplementary Series (90). Journal of Roman Archaeology, pp. 257-271.

2011

• Fulford, M. (2011) Introduction. In: Preston, S. (ed.) Archaeological investigations in the Silchester hinterland. Thames Valley Archaeological Services Monograph (9). Thames Valley Archaeological Services, Reading, pp. 1-4. ISBN 9780954400682
• Tasker, A., Wilkinson, I. P., Fulford, M. and Williams, M. (2011) Provenance of chalk tesserae from Brading Roman Villa, Isle of Wight, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists Association, 122 (5). pp. 933-937. ISSN 0016-7878 doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2011.05.003
• Fulford, M., Batcheller, J., Caple, C., Firth, J. and Richards, D. (2011) A child’s burial in unconsecrated ground in early modern Dorchester. Post-Medieval Archaeology, 45 (2). pp. 307-312. ISSN 0079-4236 doi: 10.1179/174581311X13135030529359
• Fulford, M. and Holbrook, N. (2011) Assessing the contribution of commercial archaeology to the study of the Roman period in England, 1990-2004. Antiquaries Journal, 91. pp. 323-345. ISSN 1758-5309 doi: 10.1017/S0003581511000138
• Fulford, M. (2011) The impact of commercial archaeology on the UK heritage. In: Curtis, J., Fulford, M., Harding, A. and Reynolds, F. (eds.) History for the taking? Perspectives on material heritage. British Academy, London, UK, pp. 33-53. ISBN 9780856725920
• Fulford, M. (2011) Roman Wessex. In: Whimster, R. (ed.) The new antiquarians: 50 years of archaeological research in Wessex. CBA Research Report (166). CBA , York, UK, pp. 94-106. ISBN 9781902771854
• Fulford, M. (2011) Silchester: the renaissance of an Iron Age and Roman town. In: Whimster, R. (ed.) The new antiquarians: 50 years of archaeological research in Wessex. CBA Research Report (166). CBA, York, UK, pp. 107-109. ISBN 9781902771854
• Fulford, M. and Rippon, S. (2011) Pevensey Castle, Sussex. Excavations on the Roman fort and medieval keep, 1993-95. Wessex Archaeology Report (26). Trust for Wessex Archaeology Ltd, Salisbury. ISBN 9781874350552
• Hartley, B. R., Dickinson, B. M., Dannell, G. B., Fulford, M. G., Mees, A. W., Tyers, P. A. and Wilkinson, R. H. (2011) Names on terra sigillata. An index of makers' stamps & signatures on Gallo-Roman terra sigillata (Samian ware). Vol. 8 (S to Symphorus). Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement., 102.8. University of London Institute of Classical Studies, London, pp444. ISBN 9781905670383
• Hartley, B. R., Dickinson, B. M., Dannell, G. B., Fulford, M., Mees, A. W., Tyers, P. A. and Wilkinson, R. H. (2011) Names on terra sigillata. An index of makers’ stamps & signatures on Gallo-Roman terra sigillata (Samian Ware), Vol. 7, P to RXEAD. University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, London, UK, pp504. ISBN 9781905670338
• 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. (2010) Roman Britain: immigration and material culture. In: Eckardt, H. (ed.) Roman Diasporas: archaeological approaches to mobility and diversity in the Roman Empire. JRA Supplementary Series (78). JRA, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, pp. 67-78. ISBN 9781887829786
• 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 doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.11.017
• Hartley, B., Dickinson, B. M., Dannell, G. B., Fulford, M., Mees, A. W., Tyers, P. A. and Wilkinson, R. H. (2010) Names on Terra Sigillata. An Index of Makers’ Stamps & Signatures on Gallo-Roman Terra Sigillata (Samian Ware), Vol. 6, MASCLUS I-BALBUS to OXITTUS. BICS supplement, 6. University of London: Institute of Classical Studies, London, pp338. ISBN 9781905670314

2009

• Hartley, B. R., Dickinson, B. M., Dannell, G.B., Fulford, M., Mees, A.W., Tyers, P.A. and Wilkinson, R.H. (2009) Names on terra sigillata : an index of makers’ stamps & signatures on Gallo-Roman terra sigillata (Samian ware), Vol.5 L to Masclus I. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement ; vol. 102. University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, London, pp414. ISBN 9781905670260
• Fulford, M. (2009) Approaches to quantifying Roman trade: response. In: Bowman, A. and Wilson, A. (eds.) Quantifying the Roman economy: methods and problems. Oxford studies in Roman economy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 250-258. ISBN 9780199562596
• Hartley, B. R., Dickinson, B. M., Dannell, G.B., Fulford, M., Mees, A.W., Tyers, P.A. and Wilkinson, R.H. (2009) Names on terra sigillata : an index of makers’ stamps & signatures on Gallo-Roman terra sigillata (Samian ware), Vol. 4, F to Klumi. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement ; vol. 102. University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, London, pp464. ISBN 9781905670246
• Fulford, M. (2009) Introduction: Michel Bonifay’s Etudes. In: Humphrey, J. H. (ed.) Studies on Roman pottery of the provinces of Africa Proconsularis and Byzacena (Tunisia). Hommage à Michel Bonifay. Journal of Roman Archaeology. Supplementary series (76). Journal of Roman archaeology, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, pp. 9-11. ISBN 9781887829762

2008

• Fulford, M. (2008) Nero and Britain: the palace of the client king at Calleva and imperial policy towards the province after Boudicca. Britannia, 39. pp. 1-13. ISSN 1753-5352 doi: 10.3815/006811308785917105
• Fulford, M. (2008) Imperium Galliarum, imperium Britanniarum. Developing new ideologies and settling old scores: abandonments, demolitions and new building in south-east Britain, c. AD 250-300. In: Clark, J., Cotton, J., Hall, J., Sherris, R. and Swain, H. (eds.) Londinium and beyond. Essays on Roman London and its hinterland for Harvey Sheldon. CBA Research Reports (156). Council for British Archaeology, York, UK, pp. 41-45. ISBN 9781902771724
• Hartley, B. R., Dickinson, B. M., Dannell, G. B., Fulford, M., Mees, A. W., Tyers, P. A. and Wilkinson, R. H. (2008) Names on terra sigillata. An index of makers’ stamps & signatures on Gallo-Roman terra sigillata (Samian ware), Vol. 1, A to AXO. University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, London, UK. ISBN 9781905670161
• Hartley, B. R., Dickinson, B. M., Dannell, G. B., Fulford, M., Mees, A. W., Tyers, P. A. and Wilkinson, R. H. (2008) Names on terra sigillata. An index of makers’ stamps & signatures on Gallo-Roman terra sigillata (Samian ware), Vol. 2, B to CEROTCUS. University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, London, UK. ISBN 9781905670178
• Hartley, B. R., Dickinson, B. M., Dannell, G. B., Fulford, M., Mees, A. W., Tyers, P. A. and Wilkinson, R. H. (2008) Names on terra sigillata. An index of makers’ stamps & signatures on Gallo-Roman terra sigillata (Samian ware), Vol. 3, CERTIANUS to EXSOBANO. University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, London, UK. ISBN 9781905670192
• Marshall, L.-J., Cook, S. R., Almond, M. J. and Fulford, M. G. (2008) Roman diet and trade: evidence from organic residues on pottery sherds recovered at the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester Hants.). Britannia, 39. pp. 245-254. ISSN 1753-5352 doi: 10.3815/006811308785917187
• Wilkinson, I. P., Williams, M., Young, J. R., Cook, S. R., Fulford, M. G. and Lott, G. K. (2008) The application of microfossils in assessing the provenance of chalk used in the manufacture of Roman mosaics at Silchester. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35 (8). pp. 2415-2422. ISSN 0305-4403 doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2008.03.010
• Bradley, R. and Fulford, M.G. (2008) The chronology of co-axial field systems. In: Rainbird, P. (ed.) Monuments in the Landscape. Tempus, Stroud, pp. 114-122.

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
• Fulford, M.G. (2007) Coasting Britannia: Roman trade and traffic around the shores of Britain. In: Gosden, C., Hamerow, H., de Jersey, P. and Lock, G. (eds.) Communities and Connections. Essays in honour of Barry Cunliffe. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 54-74. ISBN 9780199230341
• 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
• Fulford, M.G. (2007) The grand excavation projects of the twentieth century. In: Pearce, S.M. (ed.) Visions of Antiquity. Society of Antiquaries of London, London, pp. 353-381. ISBN 9780854312870
• Fulford, M.G. (2007) An insular obsession. Britannia, 38. pp. 367-369. ISSN 0068-113X doi: 10.3815/000000007784016467

2006

• Fulford, M. (2006) Corvées and civitates. In: Wilson, R.J.A. (ed.) Romanitas. Essays on Roman archaeology in honour of Sheppard Frere on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. Oxbow, Oxford, pp. 65-71.
• Fulford, M., Entwistle, R. and Raymond, F. (2006) Iron Age and Roman Landscape and Settlement of Salisbury Plain: survey and excavations in the Eastern Training Area 1992-1995. Wessex Archaeology, Salisbury.
• Fulford, M., Powell, A.B., Entwistle, R. and Raymond, F. (2006) Iron Age and Romano-British Settlements and Landscapes of Salisbury Plain. Wessex Archaeology Monograph 20. Wessex Archaeology, Salisbury, pp234.
• 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.
• Fulford, M. (2006) An industrial agglomeration in Britain. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 19. pp. 607-609.

2005

• Fulford, M., Sim, D., Doig, A. and Painter, J. (2005) In defence of Rome: a metallographic investigation of Roman ferrous armour from Northern Britain. Journal of Archaeological Science, 32 (2). pp. 241-250. ISSN 0305-4403 doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2004.09.003
• Tootell, K., Bailey, G. and Fulford, M. (2005) Postscript to 'Victorian Excavation Methodology': the Revd J G Joyce and Winter Excavation at Silchester in the 1860s. Antiquaries Journal, 85. pp. 395-399. ISSN 0003-5815
• 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 doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2005.01.006

2004

• 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
• Fulford, M. (2004) Economic structures. In: Todd, M. (ed.) A Companion to Roman Britain. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, pp. 309-326.
• 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.
• Fulford, M., Sim, D. and Doig, A. (2004) The production of Roman ferrous armour: a metallographic survey of material from Britain, Denmark and Germany, and its implications. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 17. pp. 197-220.

2003

• Fulford, M. (2003) The Canton of the Dobunni. In: Ecclestone Gardner, K.S., Holbrook, N. and Smith, A., M. (ed.) The Land of the Dubonni. Committee for Archaeology in Gloucestershire & the Council for British Archaeology - South West, Oxford, pp. 17-24.
• Fulford, M. (2003) Julio-Claudian and Early Flavian Calleva. In: Wilson, P. (ed.) The Archaeology of Roman Towns. Oxbow, Oxford, pp. 95-104.
• Fulford, M. (2003) Lullingstone Roman Villa. English Heritage, London, pp32.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 doi: 10.1051/jp4:20030306

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Qualifications:

BA, PhD Southampton, FBA, FSA, CBE