Philip de Jersey – författare

For almost forty years the study of the Iron Age in Britain has been dominated by Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe. Between the 1960s and 1980s he led a series of large-scale excavations at famous sites including the Roman baths at Bath, Fishbourne Roman palace, and Danebury hillfort which revolutionized our understanding of Iron Age society, and the interaction between this world of ''barbarians'' and the classical civilizations of the Mediterranean. His standard text on Iron Age Communities in Britain is in its fourth edition, and he has published groundbreaking volumes of synthesis on The Ancient Celts (OUP, 1997) and on the peoples of the Atlantic coast, Facing the Ocean (OUP, 2001). This volume brings together papers from more than thirty of Professor Cunliffe''s colleagues and students to mark his retirement from the Chair of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford, a post which he has held since 1972. The breadth of the contributions, extending over 800 years and ranging from the Atlantic fringes to the eastern Mediterranean, is testimony to Barry Cunliffe''s own extraordinarily wide interests.

For almost forty years the study of the Iron Age in Britain has been dominated by Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe. Between the 1960s and 1980s he led a series of large-scale excavations at famous sites including the Roman baths at Bath, Fishbourne Roman palace, and Danebury hillfort which revolutionized our understanding of Iron Age society, and the interaction between this world of 'barbarians' and the classical civilizations of the Mediterranean. His standard text on Iron Age Communities in Britain is in its fourth edition, and he has published groundbreaking volumes of synthesis on The Ancient Celts (OUP, 1997) and on the peoples of the Atlantic coast, Facing the Ocean (OUP, 2001). This volume brings together papers from more than thirty of Professor Cunliffe's colleagues and students to mark his retirement from the Chair of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford, a post which he has held since 1972. The breadth of the contributions, extending over 800 years and ranging from the Atlantic fringes to the eastern Mediterranean, is testimony to Barry Cunliffe's own extraordinarily wide interests.

This volume is one of a series of archaeological resource assessments commissioned by Jersey Heritage as part of an Archaeological Research Framework for the island. The study of the Iron Age in Jersey has been dominated for many decades by the extraordinary horizon of hoards – perhaps a dozen or more – associated with the Gallic Wars in the mid-first century BC. More recent research is beginning to expand our knowledge of the Iron Age beyond that narrow focus. The Gallo-Roman occupation of the island has in contrast been somewhat overlooked, largely because of a perception that there are few sites and relatively little evidence for that period, but here both archaeological investigation and the careful recording of metal-detected finds is rapidly improving our understanding of the Roman era. This volume provides an up-to-date assessment of the state of knowledge so far, setting it in the wider context of the Channel Islands and north-west France, and suggesting directions of research for future investigations in Jersey.