Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

Undergraduate and post-graduate artefacts teaching

Degree Programme Directorfor V400 (Archaeology) VV14 (Ancient HIstory & Archaeology) and VV41 (History & Archaeology) 

Tutor for Undergraduate Admissions (Semester 2)

Qualifications

BA (Hons) 2000 Archaeology and Prehistory (Sheffield)

MA 2001 Archaeological Research (York)

PhD 2005 Pottery and the End of Roman Britain: the view from Somerset and Dorset (York)

Professional affiliations and memberships of academic societies

Associate Member of the Institute for Archaeologists

Member of the Study Group for Roman Pottery

Member of the Roman Finds Group

Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society 

Previous Positions

Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge (2009-2011)

Specialist in Roman material culture, Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd (London)  (2005-2010)

Research Interests 

My research and teaching interests are focussed on the end of the Western Roman Empire in Britain and Europe. I am especially interested in the relationship between material culture, economics and identity as well as the role of artefacts in archaeological interpretation.

Research Projects

My current and recent research projects include:

• Lufton, Somerset: Landscape, Settlement and Change in the First Millennium AD
• Post-Excavation analysis of the finds from Drapers' Gardens, City of London
• The Brough of Deerness (Viking Age Diaspora Project with Dr James Barrett, Cambridge University)
• Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series 'Crisis, what Crisis?' 
• Post-excavation analysis of the Roman Bath House at Shadwell, E. London  

• Roman material culture (pottery, coins and other artefact types)
• Roman or 'Dark Age' economics
• Romano-British rural and urban settlement 
• Hoarding
• Roman London
• The Roman / Early Medieval West Country
• Artefacts and stratigraphic analysis

I undertake the production of specialist finds reports, consultancy work and other projects for organisations working in the commercial archaeological and heritage sectors. Please feel free to contact me if you require advice or assistance in these areas.   

Projects

• Lufton, Somerset: landscape, settlement and change in the first millennium AD
  Project Leader(s): Dr James Gerrard
• The Piercebridge Project (Roman Pottery from the River Tees)
  Project Leader(s): Dr Philippa Walton: British Museum, Dr James Gerrard: Newcastle University

Undergraduate teaching

I currently lead these modules:

ARA1027 Introduction to Archaeology 

ARA2101 Artefacts

ARA3114/3115 Regionality and the Fall of Rome

I contribute to these modules:

ARA2100

ARA3023 Dissertation

Postgraduate Teaching

I currently lead these modules:

ARA8025 Advanced Seminar in Artefact Studies

ARA8026 Practical Artefact Analysis

Office Hours

My student office hours in Semester 1 2012 are Mondays 1pm-2pm and Tuesdays 1pm-3pm.

• Gerrard J. The Ruin of Roman Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2013. In Press.
• Gerrard J. Romano-British pottery. In: Leary, J., Butler, J, ed. Roman Archaeology in the Upper Reaches of the Walbrook Valley: excavations at 6-8 Tokenhouse Yard. London: Pre-Construct Archaeology, 2012, pp.23-29.
• Gerrard J. The Native and Roman Pottery. In: Proctor, J, ed. Faverdale, Darlington: Excavations at a Major Settlement in the Northern Frontier Zone of Roman Britain. London: Pre-Construct Archaeology, 2012, pp.77-89.
• Barrett J, Gerrard J. The Quoygrew Sequence. In: Barrett, J, ed. Being an Islander: Production and Identity at Quoygrew, Orkney, AD 900-1600. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2012, pp.47-97.
• Douglas A, Gerrard J, Sudds B. A Roman Bath House and Settlement at Shadwell. London: Pre-Construct Archaeology, 2011.
• Gerrard J. Cathedral or Granary? The Roman Coins from Colchester House (PEP89). Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society 2011, 62, 81-88.
• Gerrard J. Crisis, whose crisis? The fifth-century in south-western Britain. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 2011, 26(1), 65-78.
• Gerrard J. New light on the end of Roman London. The Archaeological Journal 2011, 168, 181-194.
• Gerrard J. Roman pottery and small finds. In: Bishop, B., Proctor, J, ed. Settlement, Ceremony and Industry on Mousehold Heath. London: Pre-Construct Archaeology, 2011, pp.73-78.
• Gerrard J. Wells and belief systems at the end of Roman Britain. In: Lavan, L., Mulryan, M, ed. The Archaeology of Late Antique Paganism. Leiden: Brill, 2011, pp.551-572.
• Gerrard J, Barrett J. An enigmatic Viking Age settlement in Orkney. Medieval Archaeology 2010, 54(1), 423-428.
• Gerrard J. Finding the fifth century: a late fourth- and early fifth-century pottery fabric from South-East Dorset. Britannia 2010, 41, 293-312.
• Gerrard J. Dumps and tessera: high status building materials from 33 Union Street, Southwark. London Archaeologist 2009, 12(5), 130-137.
• Gerrard J. The Drapers' Gardens hoard: a preliminary account. Britannia 2009, 40, 163-183.
• Gerrard J. Demolishing Roman Britain. In: Racozcky, L, ed. The Archaeology of Destruction. Cambridge: Scholars Press, 2008, pp.176-194.
• Gerrard J. Feeding the army from Dorset: pottery, salt and the Roman state. In: Stallibrass, S., Thomas, R, ed. Feeding the Roman Army: The Archaeology of Production and Supply in NW Europe. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2008, pp.119-130.
• Gerrard J. Rethinking the small pig horizon at York Minster. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 2007, 26(3), 303-307.
• Gerrard J. The temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath and the end of Roman Britain. The Antiquaries Journal 2007, 87, 149-164.
• Gerrard J. A possible late Roman silver hoard from Bath. Britannia 2005, 36, 311-313.
• Gerrard J. Bradley Hill, Somerset and the end of Roman Britain: a study in continuity?. Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society 2005, 148, 1-10.
• Turner S, Gerrard J. Imported and local pottery at Mothecombe: some new finds amongst old material at Totnes Museum. Proceedings of the Devon Archaeological Society 2005, 62, 171-175.
• Collins R, Gerrard J, ed. Debating Late Antiquity in Britain AD300-700. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2004.
• Gerrard J. How late is late? Black Burnished ware and the fifth century. In: Collins, R., Gerrard, J, ed. Debating Late Antiquity in Britain AD300-700. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2004, pp.65-75.
• Gerrard J, Mills S. Some stray finds from the Ravenglass area, Cumbria and their implications. Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Archaeological and Antiquarian Society Third Series 2002, 2, 67-78.