Staff Profile:Professor Hella Eckardt

Name:

Professor Hella Eckardt

Job Title:

Professor

Responsibilities:

• Head of Department for Archaeology

Areas of Interest:

• Theoretical approaches to material culture
• Roman objects
• The Archaeology of the Roman provinces
• Mobility and migration in the Roman world
• The deposition of Roman objects in rivers

Postgraduate Supervision

Hella currently co-supervises two PhD students:

• Ringing the changes: the social significance of finger-rings in Roman Britain. (John Ford)
• Making Flour The German Way: imported lava quern stones in Roman Britain. (Lindsay Banfield)

Previous student topics have included:

• Pipeclay figurines in Roman Britain (Matt Fittock)
• Tools in Roman London: industry, household practice and ritual deposition across the ancient city (Owen Humphreys)
• Lighting equipment in Lusitania (Carolina Rangel de Lima)
• Romano-British pewter vessels in the British Museum (Smith)
• The economic implications of Samian ware from Britain and Germany (Weber),
• Clay objects in Ostia (Martelli)
• Romano-British bronze figurines (Durham)
• Mortaria in Roman Britain (Cramp)
• Romano-British pewter vessels (Lee)

Hella would welcome research proposals on the archaeology of Roman Britain and the north-western provinces and on Roman Material Culture. For further information, please contact Professor Eckardt

Research groups / Centres:

Diet, Health and the Life Course Research Cluster 

Objects, Materials and People Research Cluster

 

Key Facts:

Hella Eckardt teaches provincial Roman archaeology and material culture studies. Her research focuses on theoretical approaches to the material culture of the north-western provinces and she is particularly interested in the relationship between the consumption of Roman objects and the expression of social and cultural identities. She has published books on:

• lighting equipment (Illuminating Roman Britain, 2002),
• objects associated with grooming and personal adornment (with Nina Crummy: Styling the body, 2008),
• Roman migration (A long way from home: diaspora communities in Roman Britain, 2010),
• Roman artefacts and identities (Objects and Identities: Roman Britain and the north-western provinces, 2014) and
• the material culture of literacy (Writing and power in the Roman world: literacies and material culture, 2018).

Hella's current research is about the deposition of Roman objects in rivers; such finds have usually been assumed to be rubbish deposits or the result of accidental loss, but some may be deliberate ritual offerings. With Philippa Walton, she is currently writing a book about the huge assemblage of Roman objects from the River Tees at Piercebridge.

With Gundula Müldner & Mary Lewis, Hella examined the evidence for incomers in Romano-British towns through a combination of material culture, skeletal and isotope research. This showed that there is considerable evidence for individuals of very diverse origins living in later Roman towns such as York and Winchester. Read more about the project: A Long Way from Home: Diaspora Communities in Roman Britain .

She is also very interested in explaining these findings to the wider public and especially school children. Read more at Romans Revealed

Publications:

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Number of items: 27.

2019

• Eckardt, H. (2019) Britannia in numbers: 50 years of the journal of Romano-British and kindred studies. Britannia, 50. pp. 1-11. ISSN 1753-5352 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X19000345 (Editorial)

2018

• Eckardt, H. and Williams, S. (2018) The sound of magic? Bells in Roman Britain. Britannia, 49. pp. 179-210. ISSN 0068-113X doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X18000028
• Eckardt, H. (2018) Writing and power in the Roman world: literacies and material culture. Cambridge University Press, New York, pp260. ISBN 9781108418058 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108284172

2017

• Eckardt, H. (2017) Writing power: the material culture of literacy as representation and practice. In: Van Oyen, A. and Pitts, M. (eds.) Materialising Roman Histories. University of Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology Monograph (3). Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 23-30. ISBN 9781785706769

2015

• Eckardt, H., Muldner, G. and Speed, G. (2015) The late Roman field army in Northern Britain? Mobility, material culture and multi-isotope analysis at Scorton (N. Yorks). Britannia, 46. pp. 191-223. ISSN 0068-113X doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X1500015X

2014

• Eckardt, H. (2014) Objects and Identities: Roman Britain and the north-western provinces. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp296. ISBN 9780199693986
• Eckardt, H., Muldner, G. and Lewis, M. (2014) People on the move in Roman Britain. World Archaeology, 46 (4). pp. 534-550. ISSN 0043-8243 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2014.931821

2013

• 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

• Muldner, G. H., Chenery, C. and Eckardt, H. (2011) The 'Headless Romans': multi-isotope investigations of an unusual burial ground from Roman Britain. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38 (2). pp. 280-290. ISSN 0305-4403 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.09.003
• Eckardt, H. (2011) Heating and lighting. In: Allason-Jones, L. (ed.) Artefacts in Roman Britain: their purpose and use. Cambridge University Press, pp. 180-193. ISBN 9780521860123
• Chenery, C., Eckardt, H. and Muldner, G. (2011) Cosmopolitan Catterick? Isotopic evidence for population mobility on Rome’s Northern frontier. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38. pp. 1525-1536. ISSN 0305-4403 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.02.018

2010

• Eckardt, H. (2010) A long way from home: diaspora communities in Roman Britain. In: Eckardt, H. (ed.) Roman diasporas: archaeological approaches to mobility and diversity in the Roman Empire. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, pp. 99-130. ISBN 9781887829786
• Leach, S., Eckardt, H., Chenery, C., Muldner, G. and Lewis, M. (2010) A Lady of York: migration, ethnicity and identity in Roman Britain. Antiquity, 84 (323). pp. 131-145. ISSN 0003-598X doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00099816
• Chenery, C., Müldner, G. H., Evans, J., Eckardt, H., Leach, S. and Lewis, M. E. (2010) Strontium and stable isotope evidence for diet and mobility in Roman Gloucester, UK. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37 (1). pp. 150-163. ISSN 0305-4403 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.09.025

2009

• Eckardt, H., Booth, P., Chenery, C., Müldner, G. H., Evans, J.A. and Lamb, A. (2009) Oxygen and strontium isotope evidence for mobility in Roman Winchester. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36 (12). pp. 2816-2825. ISSN 0305-4403 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.09.010
• Eckardt, H., Brewer, P., Hay, S. and Poppy, S. (2009) Roman barrows and their landscape context: a GIS case study at Bartlow, Cambridgeshire. Britannia, 40 (1). pp. 65-98. ISSN 1753-5352 doi: https://doi.org/10.3815/006811309789786025
• 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.
• Leach, S., Lewis, M. E., Chenery, C., Müldner, G. H. and Eckardt, H. (2009) Migration and diversity in Roman Britain: a multidisciplinary approach to immigrants in Roman York, England. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 140 (3). pp. 546-561. ISSN 0002-9483 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21104

2008

• Eckardt, H. and Crummy, N. (2008) Styling the body in late Iron Age and Roman Britain: a contextual approach to toilet instruments. Instrumentum Monograph No. 36. Instrumentum, Montagnac. ISBN 9782355180095
• Eckardt, H. (2008) Technologies of the body: Iron Age and Roman grooming and display. In: Garrow, D., Gosden, C. and Hill, J.D. (eds.) Rethinking Celtic Art. Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 113-128. ISBN 1842173189

2007

• Astin, T., Eckardt, H. and Hay, S. (2007) Resistivity imaging survey of the Roman barrows at Bartlow, Cambridgeshire, UK. Archaeological Prospection, 14 (1). pp. 24-37. ISSN 1075-2196 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.287

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.
• Eckardt, H. and Crummy, N. (2006) 'Roman' or 'native' bodies in Britain: the evidence of late Roman nail-cleaner strap-ends. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 25 (1). pp. 83-103. ISSN 0262-5253 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0092.2006.00250.x

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.
• Eckardt, H. (2005) The social distribution of Roman artefacts: the case of nail-cleaners and brooches in Britain. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 18. pp. 139-160.

2004

• Eckardt, H. (2004) Old objects in Roman contexts: portable material culture and memory in the Roman provinces. In: Croxford, B., Eckardt, H., Meade, J. and Wakes, J. (eds.) TRAC: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Leicester 2003. Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 36-50.

2003

• Eckardt, H. and Williams, H. (2003) Objects without a past. In: Williams, H. (ed.) Archaeologies of Remembrance: death and memory in past societies. Kluwer/Plenum Academic Press, New York & London, pp. 141-170.

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Earlier Publications:

Eckardt, H. (2002) Illuminating Roman Britain. Montagnac: Instrumentum.

Eckardt, H. (2002) The Colchester lamp factory. Britannia 33, 77-93.

Eckardt, H. (1999) The Colchester Child's Grave. Britannia 30, 57 - 90.

Qualifications:

BA (Mainz), MA (London), PhD (Reading)