- Creighton, J. and Wilson, R.J.A. (Eds.) (1999) Roman Germany: Studies in Cultural Interaction. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 32: Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
- Review of 'Becoming Roman, Being Gallic, Staying British' by S. Trow, S. James and T. Moore. In Britannia, volume 42, pp 491-492.
John Creighton
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+44 (0) 118 378 7364
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Associate Professor
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 supervising the following postgraduate project:
- Visual Culture and 'decoration' in Iron Age Britain: seeing beyond metal.
He 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 j.d.creighton@reading.ac.uk.
Teaching
John is a National Teaching Fellow. He teaches at all levels from undergraduate to master's, including modules on the Iron Age, Rome, and the nature of money.
Research centres and groups
Research projects
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.
Background
John's research centres upon later Iron Age and early Roman north western 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).
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. John has also undertaken a large field survey and digitisation project of the Roman town and hinterland of Silchester (Hampshire), leading to a major reinterpretation and synthesis of the site.
John was seconded from 2005 to 2010 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 was Director of 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. He has sat on the grant awarding committees of all these organisations.
Academic qualifications
- BA, PhD (Durham)
- Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Other publications
Publications
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X17000022
- 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. pp 448. ISBN: 9780907764427
- Creighton, J. (2014) The supply and movement of Denarii in Roman Britain. Britannia , 45 pp. 121-163. ISSN: 1753-5352 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X14000282
- Clarke, A. , Creighton, J. , 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.
- Moore, T. , Braun, A. , Creighton, J. , Cripps, L. , Haupt, P. , Klenner, I. , Nouvel, P. , Ponroy, C. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1461957113Y.0000000034
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2012.684037
- Creighton, J. (2011) Atzbach geophysical survey and excavation. In: von Abegg, A. , Walter, D. , Biegert, S. , (eds.) Die Germanen und der Limes: Ausgrabungen im Vorfeld des Wetterau-Limes im Raum Wetzlar-Gießen. Römisch-Germanische Forschungen Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Verlag Philipp von Zabern (67). , Mainz am Rhein. pp. 240-243. ISBN: 9783805343855
- Creighton, J. (2011) Krofdorf geophysical survey. In: von Abegg, A. , Walter, D. , Biegert, .. , (eds.) Die Germanen und der Limes: Ausgrabungen im Vorfeld des Wetterau-Limes im Raum Wetzlar-Gießen. Römisch-Germanische Forschungen Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Verlag Philipp von Zabern (67). , Mainz am Rhein. pp. 205-206. ISBN: 9783805343855
- Phillips, T. and Creighton, J. (2011) Employing people with disability: good practice guidance for archaeologists. IFA Professional Paper Institute for Archaeologists (9). , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03075071003777708
- Creighton, J. (2009) Herod's contemporaries in Britain and the West. In: Jacobson, . and Kokkinos, . , (eds.) Herod and Augustus: Papers Presented at the IJS Conference 21st-23rd June 2005. Studies in Judea Institute of Jewish Studies (6). , London. pp. 361-381.
- Creighton, J. and Moore, T. (2008) Sondages au site des Sources de l'Yonne, commune de Glux-en-Glenne. Rapport Annuel d'Activité 2007 Centre archéologique européen du Mont Beuvray , Glux-en-Glenne. pp 210.
- Creighton, J. , Haselgrove, C. , Lowether, P. , 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. , Haupt, P. , Klenner, I. , Moore, T. , Schönfelder, M. (2007) Site des sources de l'Yonne, commune du Glux-en-Glenne. Bibracte: Rapport Annuel d'Activite 2006. Centre archéologique européen , Glux-en Glenne. pp. 192-199.
- Creighton, J. , Haupt, P. , Klenner, I. , Moore, T. , Nouvel, P. , Christophe, P. , 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.
- Williams, M. and Creighton, J. (2006) Shamanic practices and trance imagery in the Iron Age. In: de Jersey, . , (eds.) Celtic Coinage: new discoveries, new discussions. , 1532. BAR International Series , Oxford. pp. 49-60.
- Creighton, J. (2006) Britannia: The Creation of a Roman Province. Routledge , Abingdon. pp 180.
- Creighton, J. (2005) Gold, ritual and kingship. In: Wigg-Wolf, . and Haselgrove, . , (eds.) Iron Age Coinage and Ritual Practices. Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz am Rhein. pp. 69-84.
- Creighton, J. (2005) Cattle, community and corrals. Archaeological Dialogues , 12 (2). pp. 132-135. ISSN: 1478-2294 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S138020380622186X
- Creighton, J. (2005) Links between the classical imagery in post-Caesarian Belgica and the rest of the Roman world. In: Metzler, . and Wigg, . , (eds.) Die Kelten und Rom: neue numismatische Forschungen. Studien zu Fundmünzen der Antike (SFMA) Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur (19). , Mainz-am-Rhein. pp. 87-108.