Writer

Not in the sense of D.H. Lawrence, or even Jeffrey Archer, perhaps, but I place words on pages and they make sentences... sort of. From a little Shire book to a slightly bigger Batsford one, both written with my friend and colleague Jon Coulston. However, most of what I write is boring old reports, mainly on the subject of archaeology - the public duty to inform, I suppose, together with the occasional academic paper.

The ways of the writer are changing, however: the Internet ensures that I now write to other people more than I have done before, and gives me the chance to write a wider variety of things. A list of publications follows, so now is your chance to escape...

• (as editor) Roman Military Equipment. Proceedings of a Seminar Held in the Department of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, 21st March 1983, (Sheffield 1983)
• 'The Camomile Street soldier reconsidered' in Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society 34, 1983, 31-48
• (as editor) The Production and Distribution of Roman Military Equipment. Proceedings of the Second Roman Military Equipment Research Seminar, BAR International Series 275, (Oxford 1985)
• 'The military fabrica and the production of arms in the early principate' in Bishop, 1985, 1-42
• 'The distribution of military equipment within Roman forts of the first century A.D.' in C. Unz (ed.) Studien zu den Militärgrenzen Roms III. 13. internationaler Limeskongreß Aalen 1983 Vortrage (Stuttgart 1986), 717-23
• '"The evolution of certain features"' in M. Dawson (ed.) Roman Military Equipment: The Accoutrements of War. Proceedings of the Third Roman Military Equipment Research Seminar, BAR International Series 336, (Oxford 1987), 109-39
• 'Cavalry equipment of the Roman army in the first century A.D.' in J.C. Coulston (ed.) Military Equipment and the Identity of Roman Soldiers. Proceedings of the Fourth Roman Military Equipment Conference, BAR International Series 394, (Oxford 1988), 67-194
• 'O Fortuna: a sideways look at the archaeological record and Roman military equipment' in C. van Driel-Murray (ed.), Roman Military Equipment: the Sources of Evidence. Proceedings of the Fifth Roman Military Equipment Conference, BAR International Series 476, (Oxford 1989), 1-11
• 'The articulated cuirass in Qin dynasty China', Antiquity 63:241, December 1989, 697-705
• 'Belt fittings in Buxton Museum' Arma 1, 1989, 11-13
• 'The composition of some copper alloy artefacts from Longthorpe' Arma 1, 1989, 20-3
• 'On parade: status, display, and morale in the Roman army' in Akten der 14. Internationalen Limeskongresses in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg/Carnuntum, 14.-21. September 1986, Römische Limes in Österreich Sonderband, (Vienna 1990), 21-30
• 'A decorated dagger scabbard from Corbridge, Northumberland' Arma 2, 1990, 11
• 'Two cavalry fittings from Castleford, West Yorkshire' Arma 2, 1990, 28-31
• 'Legio V Alaudae and the crested lark', Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 1, 1990, 161-4
• Recent Excavations on the Roman Fort at Chester-le-Street (Church Chare 1990-91), (Newcastle upon Tyne 1991)
• 'Soldiers and military equipment in the towns of Roman Britain' in V.A. Maxfield & M.J. Dobson (eds.), Roman Frontier Studies 1989, (Exeter 1991), 21-7
• 'The White Wall, Berwick upon Tweed', Archaeologia Aeliana Ser.5, XX, 1992, 117-19
• 'Early enamelled belt plates from Britain' Arma 4, 1992, 17-19
• 'The early imperial "apron"', Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 3, 1992, 81-104
• 'Excavations in the Roman fort at Chester-le-Street (Concangis), Church Chare 1990-91', Archaeologia Aeliana Ser.5, XXI, 1993, 29-85
• Corstopitum: An Edwardian Excavation, (London 1994)
• 'Roman or native? A new hilt-guard from a Roman context' Arma 6, 1994, 16-18
• 'Some pre-Flavian military equipment from Kent' Arma 7, 1995, 17-19
• Finds from Roman Aldborough. A Catalogue of Small Finds from the Romano-British Town of Isurium Brigantum, Oxbow Monograph 65, (Oxford 1996)
• 'How do you follow that? The Russell Robinson archive and the future of Roman military equipment studies', Arma 8, 1996, 9-12
• 'Military equipment' in H.E.M. Cool & C. Philo (eds.), Roman Castleford Excavations 1974-85. Volume 1. The Small Finds, Yorkshire Archaeology 4 (Wakefield 1998), 61-81
• 'An old Corbridge bath-house revisited', Archaeologia Aeliana series 5, volume 26, 1998, 39-47
• 'The historical and archaeological context of the castra at Castleford' in P. Abramson, D.S. Berg, and M.R. Fossick, Roman Castleford Excavations 1974-85. Volume 2. The Structural and Environmental Evidence, Yorkshire Archaeology 5 (Wakefield 1999), 307-12
• 'A late Iron Age/early Roman period ladder settlement at Melton, North Humberside' , Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 1999
• 'A new Flavian military site at Roecliffe, North Yorkshire' (forthcoming)
• (with L. Allason-Jones) Excavations at Roman Corbridge: the Hoard, HBMCE Archaeological Report No.7, (London 1988)
• (with M.V. Andrews) 'Absolute pollen analysis: an example of the use of the "home computer" in archaeology' in J.G.B. Haigh (ed.) Computer Applications in Archaeology 1983, 59-66
• (with J. Thomas) '"BEAKER" - an expert system for the BBC Micro' in S. Laflin (ed.) Computer Applications in Archaeology 1984, 56-62
• (with J.C. Coulston) Roman Military Equipment, Shire Archaeology, (Princes Risborough 1989)
• (with J.C.N. Coulston) Roman Military Equipment from the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome, (London 1993)
• (with J.N. Dore) Corbridge: Excavations of the Roman Fort and Town, 1947-80, HBMCE Archaeological Report No.8, (London 1989)
• (with P.W.M. Freeman) 'Recent work at Osmanthorpe, Nottinghamshire', Britannia XXIV, 1993, 159-89
• (with N.A. Griffiths) 'Some military fittings from Caerwent (Venta Silurum)', Arma 5, 1993, 18-20

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