Binchester and Hadrian’s Wall

Binchester Roman Fort Excavation logo. © 2009 Binchester Roman Fort Excavation Project and Durham University.

I am signed on as one of the co-principal investigators on the excavation of a multi-period site at Binchester (AKA Vinovia), near Hadrian’s Wall.  My major interests in this site are examining civilian and military relationships as constructed through urban space, thinking about how most effectively to interest and include different modern communities in the archaeology of a particular site, and — after several years — making a return to human osteological remains analysis.

There’s quite a bit of preliminary information online Stanford webpage and on the Durham University Binchester Fort pages. For those of you who absolutely have to know what’s going on at the site as it happens, there are a couple of other useful links:

• Roman Binchester Facebook group, for those of you interested in that kind of thing.
• David Petts’s Roman Binchester.
• Gary Devore’s Rebuilt Romans.

UPDATE: This year’s excavation season was a useful for me personally. In addition to collaborating with colleagues from Durham University and the associated professional field unit (Archaeological Services), one new avenue of research revealed itself. More on this later, as things develop.