Staff Profile:Professor Richard Bradley

Name:

Professor Richard Bradley

Job Title:

Professor in Archaeology

Responsibilities:

Seminar series coordinator

Areas of Interest:

• Prehistoric landscapes
• Rock Art
• Ritual and social organisation
• Field Archaeology

Research groups / Centres:

Social Archaeology Research Group

Key Facts

Professor Richard Bradley teaches prehistoric archaeology and has written a number of books on the subject. His fieldwork has centred on prehistoric settlements, landscapes and monuments in England, Scotland, Spain and Scandinavia. These include studies of Cranborne Chase, the Neolithic axe quarries of Great Langdale (Cumbria), the stone circlesof north-east Scotland, the Clava Cairns of northern Scotland, the megalithic art of Orkney, the prehistoric land boundaries of Salisbury Plain, and the Copper Age cave sanctuary of El Pedroso (northern Spain). He has conducted other field investigations of megalithic tombs in the west of Sweden, and a study of the siting of Bronze Age metalwork hoards in southern England, and has also investigated prehistoric rock art in Britain, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and Norway.

Recent projects include a new book on approaches to studying prehistoric art, another on ritual and domestic life in prehistoric Europe, and a recent account of the prehistory of Britain and Ireland. Current projects include an investigation of henge monuments in Aberdeenshire and Caithness, and excavation around prehistoric rock carvings on the National Trust of Scotland's Ben Lawers estate. Future plans include a study of the Bronze Age ship settings on the Baltic island of Gotland, and a new account of the Continental background to British and Irish prehistory. The latter project is funded by the Leverhulme Trust and conducted jointly with Leicester University.

Publications:

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Number of items: 75.

2012

• Bradley, R. (2012) The idea of order: the circular archetype in prehistoric Europe. Oxford University Press, Oxford. (In Press)

2011

• Bradley, R. (2011) Stages and screens: an investigation of four henge monuments in Northern and North-eastern Scotland. Societies of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, pp195. ISBN 9780903903387
• Brown, A. D., Bradley, R. J., Goldhahn, J., Nord, J., Skoglund, P. and Yendell, V. (2011) The environmental context of a prehistoric rock carving on the Bjäre Peninsula, Scania, southern Sweden. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38 (3). pp. 746-752. ISSN 0305-4403 doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.11.009
• Bradley, R. (2011) Any questions? In: Jones, A. M. and Kirkham, G. (eds.) Beyond the core: reflections on regionality in prehistory. Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK, pp. 113-114. ISBN 9781842179895
• Fraser, E. and Bradley, R. (2011) Barrows and the boundary between the living and the dead. In: Mullin, D. (ed.) Places in between: the archaeology of social, cultural and geographical borders and borderlands. Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK, pp. 40-47. ISBN 9781842179833
• Bradley, R. and Watson, A. (2011) Ben Lawers: carved rocks on a loud mountain. In: Cochrane, A. and Jones, A. (eds.) Visualising the Neolithic: Abstraction, Figuration, Performance, Representation. Oxbow, Oxford. (In Press)
• Bradley, R., Haselgrove, C., Vander Linden, M. and Webley, L. (2011) Development led archaeology in north-west Europe. Oxbow, Oxford. ISBN 9781842174661 (In Press)
• Bradley, R. (2011) Enclosures, mounds and Great Houses. In: O'Sullivan, M. (ed.) Tara. From the Past to the Future. Wordwell, Dublin. (In Press)
• Bradley, R. (2011) Hoards and the deposition of metalwork. In: Fokkens, H. and Harding, A. (eds.) Handbook of the European Bronze Age. Oxford University Press, Oxford. (In Press)
• Bradley, R. (2011) Postscript: recorded time. In: Bradley, R., Haselgrove, C., Vander Linden, M. and Webley, L. (eds.) Development Led Archaeology in North-West Europe. Oxbow, Oxford. ISBN 9781842174661 (In Press)
• Bradley, R. (2011) Suspended animation: figure and ground in later prehistoric rock art. In: Forsberg, L. and Walderhaug, E. (eds.) Art and Cognition in Northern Landscapes. University of Bergen. (In Press)
• Bradley, R. (2011) Twenty questions about Campo Lameiro. In: Criado Boado , F. and Martínez Cortízas , A. (eds.) Arte rupestre, paleoambiente y paisaje. Miradas interdisciplinares sobre Campo Lameiro. CSIC, Santiago de Compostela . (In Press)
• Bradley, R. (2011) Una interpretación de los recintos de fosos del Noroeste de Europa. In: Delibes de Castro , G. and Guera Doce , E. (eds.) Los recintos de fosos de la prehistoria receinte en el suroeste de Europa. Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid. (In Press)

2010

• Bradley, R. J., Brown, A. D. and Watson, A. (2010) The archaeology and environment of prehistoric rock carvings on Ben Lawers. PAST, 65. pp. 10-12.
• Bradley, R. J. (2010) Epilogue: Drawing on stone. In: Goldhahn, J., Fuglestvedt, I. and Jones, A. (eds.) Changing Pictures: Rock Art Traditions and Visions in Northern Europe. Oxbow, Oxford, pp. 197-205. ISBN 9781842174050
• Bradley, R. J. (2010) Prehistoric and Roman Berkshire. In: Tyack, G., Bradley, S. and Pevsner, N. (eds.) The Buildings of England. Berkshire. Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England. Yale University Press, New Haven, pp. 9-15. ISBN 9780300126624
• Yates, D. and Bradley, R. (2010) Still water, hidden depths: the deposition of Bronze Age metalwork in the English Fenland. Antiquity, 84 (324). pp. 405-415. ISSN 0003-598X
• Bradley, R. and Fraser, E. (2010) Bronze Age barrows on the heathlands of southern England: construction, forms and interpretations. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 29 (1). pp. 15-33. ISSN 0262-5253 doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2009.00338.x
• Bradley, R., Skoglund, P. and Wehlin, J. (2010) Imaginary vessels in the Late Bronze Age of Gotland and south Scandinavia: ship settings, rock carvings and decorated metalwork. Current Swedish Archaeology, 18. pp. 79-103. ISSN 1102-7355
• Bradley, R. (2010) Missing links and false relations: architecture and ideas in Bronze Age Scotland and Ireland. In: Cooney, G., Becker, K., Coles, J., Ryan, M. and Sievers, S. (eds.) Relics of old decency: Archaeological studies in later prehistory: Festschrift for Barry Raftery. Wordwell, Bray, pp. 221-223. ISBN 9781905569373
• Bradley, R. (2010) Passage graves, statues and standing stones: megaltihic and social identities in prehistoric Scotland and Ireland. In: Megaliths and Identities: Third European Megalithic Studies Group Meeting, 13-15 May 2010, Kiel University, Germany, pp. 1-7.
• Bradley, R. (2010) Prefácio. In: Bettancourt, A. M. S. and Alves, L. B. (eds.) Dos montes, das pedras e das águas. Formas de integracção com o espaço natural da prê-história à actualidade. Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar 'Cultura, Espaço e Memória', Braga, pp. 5-6. ISBN 9789898351029
• Bradley, R. (2010) The monument as microcosm: living in a circular world. In: Graduate School "Human Development in Landscapes" University of Kiel, (ed.) Landscapes and human development: the contribution of European archaeology. Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn, pp. 133-142. ISBN 139783774937093 (Proceedings of the international workshop "Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 12,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes" (1st-4th April 2009))
• Yates, D. and Bradley, R. (2010) The siting of metalwork hoards in the Bronze Age of south-east England. Antiquaries Journal, 90. pp. 41-72. ISSN 1758-5309 doi: 10.1017/S0003581509990461

2009

• Bradley, R. and Lamdin-Whymark, H. (2009) Pullyhour: a signpost to the past. PAST, 61. pp. 3-5.
• Bradley, R. (2009) Image and audience: rethinking prehistoric art. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp280. ISBN 9780199533855
• Bradley, R. (2009) Beowulf and British prehistory. In: Sayer, D. and Williams , H. (eds.) Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the Middle Ages. University of Exeter Press, Exeter, pp. 38-45. ISBN 9780859898317
• Bradley, R., Haselgrove, C., Vander Linden, M. and Webley, L. (2009) Britain and the nearby continent during later prehistory, and the contribution of Malta-related archaeology: a research project. Bulletin de l'association pour la promotion des recherches sur l'âge du bronze, 6. pp. 71-72.
• Bradley, R. (2009) Dead stone and living rock. In: O'Connor, B., Cooney , G. and Chapman, J. (eds.) Materialitas: Working Stone, Carving Identity. Prehistoric Society Research Paper (3). Oxbow Books/The Prehistoric Society, pp. 1-8. ISBN 9781842173770
• Bradley, R. and Watson, A. (2009) Excavating prehistoric rock carvings on Ben Lawers. The Archaeologist , 74. pp. 34-35.
• Bradley, R. (2009) Nuevas reflexiones sobre el arte rupestre de Inglaterra, Gales y Escocia. In: de Balbín Behrmann, R., Primitiva Bueno Ramirez, P. B., Antón, R. G. and del Arco Aguilar, C. (eds.) Grabados rupestres de la fachada atlántica europea y africana. British Archaeological Reports (International Series) (S2043). Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 13-25. ISBN 9781407306193
• Bradley, R. and Watson, A. (2009) On the edge of England: Cumbria as a Neolithic region. In: Brophy, K. and Barclay , G. (eds.) Defining a Regional Neolithic: the Evidence from Britain and Ireland. Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers (9). Oxbow, Oxford, pp. 65-67. ISBN 9781842173336
• Bradley, R., Sheridan, A. and Schulting, R. (2009) Radiocarbon dates arranged though National Museums Scotland Archaeology Department during 2008/9. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, 10. pp. 212-214.
• Bradley, R., Evans, C., Fleming, A. and Pryor, F. (2009) The field system triumvirate: a dialogue. In: Evans, C. (ed.) Fengate Revisited: Further Fen-edge Excavations, Bronze Age Fieldsystems and Settlement and the Wyman Abbott/Leeds Archives. Oxbow Books/Cambridge Archaeological Unit, Oxford, pp. 260-267. ISBN 9780954482480

2008

• Bradley, R. and Phillips, T. (2008) Display, disclosure and concealment: the organization of raw materials in the chambered tombs of Bohuslän. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 27 (1). pp. 1-13. ISSN 0262-5253 doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2007.00292.x
• Bradley, R. (2008) Ship settings and boat crews in the Bronze Age of Scandinavia. In: Goldhahn, J. (ed.) Gropar och monument. En vänbok till Dag Widholm. Kalmar Studies in Archaeology, Kalmar, pp. 171-184.
• 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.
• Bradley, R. (2008) The end of the beginning. Changing configurations in the British and Irish Neolithic. Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia, 40. pp. 43-49. ISSN 0169-7447

2007

• Bradley, R. and Smith, A. (2007) Questions of context: a Greek cup from the River Thames. 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. 30-42. ISBN 9780199230341
• Bradley, R. and Yates, D. (2007) After Celtic Fields: the social organisation of Iron Age agriculture. In: Haselgrove, C. and Pope, R. (eds.) The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the near Continent. Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 94-102. ISBN 978-1842172537
• Bradley, R. (2007) Barrows as projects. In: Last, J. (ed.) Beyond the Grave. New Perspectives on Barrows. Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 176-180. ISBN 978-1-84217-258-2
• Bradley, R. and Widholm, D. (2007) Bronze Age cosmology in the south-west Baltic: a framework for research. In: Widholm, D. (ed.) Stone Ships. The Sea and the Heavenly Journey. Lund University, Lund, pp. 13-48. ISBN 978-91-89584-76-1
• Bradley, R. (2007) Houses, bodies and tombs. Proceedings of the British Academy, 144. pp. 347-355.
• Bradley, R. (2007) The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp321. ISBN 9780521848114
• Bradley, R. (2007) Roman interpretations of the prehistoric past. In: Gilmour, L. (ed.) Pagans and Christians - from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford, pp. 1-3. ISBN 9781407300276
• Bradley, R. and Widholm, D. (2007) The mountain of ships. The organisation of the Bronze Age cemetery at Snäckedal, Misterhult, Småland. In: Hårdh, B., Jennbert, K. and Olausson, D. (eds.) On the Road. Studies in Honour of Lars Larsson. Almqvist and Wiksell, Stockholm, pp. 246-252. ISBN 9789122021636
• Bradley, R. (2007) The shipping news: land and water in Bronze Age Scandinavia. In: Barraclough, D. and Malone, C. (eds.) Cult in Context Conference: Reconsidering Ritual in Archaeology. Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 210-216. ISBN 9781842173039

2006

• Bradley, R. (2006) Bridging the two cultures. Commercial archaeology and the study of prehistoric Britain. Antiquaries Journal, 86. pp. 1-13. ISSN 1758-5309 doi: 10.1017/S0003581500000032
• Bradley, R. (2006) Can archaeologists study prehistoric cosmology? In: Andrén, A., Jennbert, K. and Rautvere, C. (eds.) Old Norse Religion in Long-term Perspective. Nordic Academic Press, Lund, pp. 16-20.
• Bradley, R. (2006) Danish razors and Swedish rocks: Cosmology and the Bronze Age landscape. Antiquity, 80 (308). pp. 372-389. ISSN 0003-598X
• Bradley, R. (2006) Monuments de pierre préhistoriques de Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande: un cas d'exception. In: Laporte, L. (ed.) Origine et développement du mégalithisme de l'Ouest de l'Europe. Musée de Bougon, Bougon, pp. 527-546.
• Bradley, R. (2006) Ritual and ceremony in the prehistoric landscape. In: Greenwood, P., Perring, D. and Rowsome, P. (eds.) From Ice Age to Essex. A history of the people and landscape of east London. Museum of London, London, p. 55.
• Bradley, R. (2006) Visions and revisions: northern influence in south Scandinavian rock art? In: Barndon, R., Innselset, S., Kristoffersen, K. and Lødøen, T. (eds.) Samfunn, symboler og identitet - Festkrift til Gro Mandt på 70-årsdagen. Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen, pp. 163-170.
• Bradley, R. (2006) The excavation report as a literary genre: traditional practice in Britain. World Archaeology, 38 (4). pp. 664-671. ISSN 0043-8243 doi: 10.1080/00438240600963338
• Bradley, R. (2006) A visual metaphor for landscape archaeology. Journal of Iberian Archaeology, 8. pp. 11-14. ISSN 0874-2677

2005

• Bradley, R. and Sheridan, A. (2005) Croft Moraig and the chronology of stone circles. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 71. pp. 269-281.
• Phillips, T. and Bradley, R. (2005) Developer-funded fieldwork in Scotland, 1990-2003: an overview of the prehistoric evidence. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 134 (2004). pp. 17-51. ISSN 0081-1564
• Bradley, R. (2005) Domestication, sedentism, property and time: materiality and the beginnings of agriculture in Northern Europe. In: DeMarrais, E., Gosden, C. and Renfrew, C. (eds.) Rethinking Materiality: the Engagement of Mind with the Material World. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, pp. 107-115.
• Bradley, R., Fabregas, R., Alves, L. and Vilaseco, X. (2005) El Pedroso - a prehistoric cave sanctuary in Castille. Journal of Iberian Archaeology, 7. pp. 125-156. ISSN 0874-2677
• Bradley, R., Arrowsmith, S. and Phillips, T. (2005) Excavations at Cothiemuir Wood. In: Bradley, R. (ed.) The Moon and the Bonfire. An investigation of three stone circles in north-east Scotland. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, pp. 53-77.
• Bradley, R. and Phillips, T. (2005) Excavations at Tomnaverie Stone Circle. In: Bradley, R. (ed.) The Moon and the Bonfire. An investigation of three stone circles in north-east Scotland. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, pp. 9-51.
• Bradley, R. (2005) The Moon and the Bonfire. An investigation of three stone circles in north-east Scotland. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, pp124.
• Bradley, R. (2005) Ritual and Domestic Life in Prehistoric Europe. Routledge, London, pp234.
• Bradley, R. (2005) A Visitor's Guide to Balnuaran of Clava. Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, pp6.

2004

• Bradley, R. (2004) Enclosures, monuments and the ritualization of domestic life. In: Jorge, S.O. (ed.) Recintos murados da Pré-história recente. Universidade de Porto, Porto, pp. 355-369.
• Bradley, R. (2004) Stuart Piggott, ancient Europe and the prehistory of Northern Britain. In: Barclay, G. and Shepherd, I. (eds.) Scotland in Ancient Europe. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, pp. 3-11.
• Bradley, R. and Phillips, T. (2004) The high-water mark. The siting of megalithic tombs on the Swedish island of Tjorn. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 23 (2). pp. 123-133. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2004.00205.x
• Bradley, R. and Ford, D. (2004) A long-distance connection in the Bronze Age. Joining fragments of a Ewart Park sword from two sites in England. In: Roche, H., Grogan, E., Bradley, J., Raftery, B. and Coles, J. (eds.) From Megaliths to Metals. Essays in Honour of George Eogan. Oxbow, Oxford, pp. 174-177.
• Ballard, C., Bradley, R., Nordenborg Myhre, L. and Wilson, M. (2004) The ship as symbol in the prehistory of Scandinavia and south-east Asia. World Archaeology, 35 (3). pp. 385-403. ISSN 0043-8243 doi: 10.1080/0043824042000185784

2003

• Bradley, R. (2003) In the Dutch mountains: the ritualization of domestic life in Neolithic Europe. In: Groenman-van-Waateringe, W., van Beek, B. and Metz, W. (eds.) Het Instituut. Vijftig jaar IPP/AAC. Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, pp. 22-32.
• Bradley, R. (2003) Neolithic expectations. In: Armit, I., Murphy, E., Nelis, E. and Simpson, E. (eds.) Neolithic Settlement in Ireland and Western Britain. Oxbow, Oxford, pp. 218-222.
• Bradley, R. (2003) Seeing things: perception, experience and the constraints of excavation. Journal of Social Archaeology, 3 (2). pp. 151-168. ISSN 1469-6053 doi: 10.1177/1469605303003002002
• Bradley, R. (2003) Time in translation. In: Alcock, S. and Van Dyke, R. (eds.) Archaeologies of Memory. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 221-227.
• Bradley, R. (2003) A life less ordinary: The ritualization of the domestic sphere in later prehistoric Europe. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 13 (1). pp. 5-23. ISSN 0959-7743

2002

• Bradley, R., Jones, A., Nordenborg Myhre, L. and Sacket, H. (2002) Sailing through stone. Carved ships and the rockface at Revheim, southwest Norway. Norwegian Archaeological Review, 35 (2). pp. 109-118. ISSN 1502-7678 doi: 10.1080/002936502762389738

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Qualifications:

MA (Oxon) Fil. Dr h.c. (Lund), MIFA, FSA, FBA