Julian Bennett

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Julian Bennett received his Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1991, and has taught at Bilkent since 1995. His areas of expertise are Roman provincial and military archaeology, and the archaeology and architecture of Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia. He is the author of numerous monographs and articles on various aspects of Roman and Medieval Britain and the Roman army, and his latest book, Trajan, Optimus Princeps (Routledge/Indiana University Press 1997), has recently appeared in a second revised edition (2001). His fieldwork experience extends from rural and urban salvage excavations in Britain and Germany to current research projects and excavations in Romania and Turkey. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2002.

Publications

Monographs and Books

2006. Traian İmpăraţi Romani Bucharest: Editura Bic All.

2002. with Freeman, P., Fiema, Z., and Hoffman, B., joint eds, Limes XVIII: Proceedings of the XVIIIth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 2000. London:British Archaeological Reports S-1084.

2001. Trajan, Optimus Princeps Routledge - Fully Revised Paperback 2nd Edition. London; Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

2001. Towns in Roman Britain Fully Revised 3rd Edition. Princes Risborough: Shire Archaeology.

1997. Trajan, Optimus Princeps London; Routledge, Indiana University Press, Bloomington

1990. The Setting, Development and Function of the Hadrianic Frontier in Britain Unpublished Ph.D thesis. University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

1987. Towns in Roman Britain - Reprint. Princes Risborough: Shire Archaeology.

1985. Sea Mills, the Roman Town of Abonae Bristol: Bristol City Museum.

1984. Towns in Roman Britain Revised Edition. Princes Risborough: Shire Archaeology.

1980. Towns in Roman Britain Princes Risborough: Shire Archaeology.

1980. A Romano-British Settlement at Cattybrook Almondsbury, Avon Bristol: Western Archaeological Trust.

1979. with Vyner, B.E. A Water-mill at Norton-on-Tees, Cleveland Middlesborough: Cleveland County Council.

Articles and Chapters in Journals, Books and Monographs

In Press. ‘New Evidence from Ancyra for the collegia veteranorum and the albata decursio’, Anatolian Studies 56 (2006).

In Press. ‘A Transection of the Linear Elements of the Hadrian's Wall System in Wall mile 61 (Crosby on Eden 1980-84)’, in Wilmott, T. Ed - , Hadrian’s Wall: Archaeological research by English Heritage 1976-2000 London: English Heritage.

In Press. Review of: J.González (ed), Trajano, Emperador de Roma (‘L’Erma’ di Bretschneider Rome, 2000), Latomus 66 (2007).

In Press. with Wilmott, T., and Friell, G. ‘Introduction’, in Wilmott, T. (ed), Hadrian’s Wall: Archaeological research by English Heritage 1976-2000 London: English Heritage.

2007. ‘A Centurion And His Slave: a Latin Epitaph from Western Anatolia in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden’, Anatolica, 33, 129-142.

2007. ‘The Roman Army in Lycia-Pamphylia’, Adalya 10, 131-153.

2007. ‘Two New Centurions of the legio IIII Scythica’, Latomus 66/2, 404-413.

2007. Review of: J.González - Ed, Trajano, Emperador de Roma ‘L’Erma’ di Bretschneider Rome, 2000, Latomus 66

2006. ‘The Political and Physical Topography of Early Imperial Graeco-Roman Ancyra’, Anatolica 32, 189-227.

2006. ‘The Cohors Equitata Fort at Tihău-Cetate, Sălaj Province, Romania: the results of geophysical and other surveys’, Journal of Roman Archaeology 19, 278-299.

2006. Review of: R.L.Mullen, The Expansion of Christianity: a Gazetteer of its First Three Centuries Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2004, The Journal of Cyprus Studies 111/28-29, 133-137.

2003. ‘Ancyra, Metropolis Provinciae Galatiae’ in Wilson, P.R. - Ed, The Archaeology of Roman Towns Oxford: Oxbow. 1-12.

2003. with Biek, L ‘Analysis of Mortar and Plaster from Catterick Bypass (Site 433)’, in Wilson, P.R. -Ed, Roman Catterick (Cataractonium):a Roman Town and its hinterland London: Council for British Archaeology. Chapter 26.1.

2002. Review of: M.T.Boatwright, Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire Princeton 2002, American Historical Review 107/2, 586-587.

1998. ‘The Roman Frontier from Wallsend to Rudchester Burn Reviewed’, Archaeol Aeliana (ser. 5) 26, 17-37.

1991. ‘Plumbatae from Pitsunda (Pityus), Georgia, USSR,’ J Roman Military Equipment Studies 2, 59-63.

1989. ‘A Roman Helmet in the Dominican Republic’, in Van Driel-Murray, C. -Ed. Roman Military Equipment: the sources of the evidence British Archaeological Reports London: S-476. 235-245.

1988. ‘The Principal Gateways of the Primary Forts on Hadrian's Wall’, in Bidwell, P.T., et al -Eds, Portae cum Turribis - Roman Fort Gates London: British Archaeological Reports B-206. 113-142.

1987. ‘The Castles, Downhall, Aikton’, Trans Cumb West Antiq Archaeol Soc ser. 2 87, 67-82.

1987. ‘A Watching-brief South-east of Moresby Fort’, Trans Cumb West Antiq Archaeol Soc ser. 2 87, 265-268.

1985. ‘A Chased Cheek-piece from Stanwix’, in Bishop, M.C. Ed. The Production and Distribution of Roman MilitaryEquipment London: British Archaeological Reports S-275. 109-116.

1984. ‘Hadrian and the Title Pater Patriae’, Britannia 15, 234-235.

1984. ‘Billet Street Salvage Excavations’, in Leach, P.J. Ed. The Archaeology of Taunton Bristol: Western Archaeological Trust. 90-91.

1984. ‘A Medieval Hall at No. 1, High Street, 1974’, in Leach, P.J. op cit, 91-98.

1984. ‘St. James Street Excavations, 1974’, in Leach, P.J. op cit, 98-103.

1984. with Pearson, T. ‘Kennedy's Yard Excavations, 1974’, in Leach, P.J. op cit, 82-90.

1984. with Allason-Jones, L.A. and Welsby, D.A., ‘The Material from Milecastle 54’, Archaeol Aeliana ser. 5 12, 228-235.

1984. with Casey, P.J. ‘Caerwent (Venta Silurum): the Excavation of the North-west Corner Tower and an Analysis of the Structural Sequence of the Defences’, Archaeol Cambrensis 132, 49-77.

1983. ‘The Excavation of Turret 10a, and the Wall and Vallum at Throckley, Tyne and Wear’, Archaeol Aeliana ser. 5 11, 27-60.

1983. with Turner, R. ‘The Vallum at Wallhouses, Northumberland’, Archaeol Aeliana ser. 5 11, 61-78.

1982. ‘The Great Chesters Pilum Murale’, Archaeol Aeliana ser. 5 10, 200-205.

1981. with Young, R. ‘Some new and some forgotten Stamped Skillets, and the date of P. Cipius Polybius’, Britannia 12, 37-44.

1981. with Young, R. ‘A Stamped Patera-handle from Lincoln City’, Lincs History and Archaeol 15, 84-85.

1980. ‘Early Claudian Lezoux Ware in the Durham University Collections’, Trans Archaeol Archit Soc Durham and Northumberland ser. 2, 5, 45-46.

1980. ‘Excavation and Survey on the Medieval City Wall’, in Carver, M.O.H. Ed. Medieval Worcester Worcester: Worcestershire Archaeological Society. 65-85.

1980. with Jones, J.H.T. and Vyner, B.E. ‘A Medieval and Later Water-mill at Norton-on-Tees’, Industrial Archaeol Rev 4, 171-176.

1979. with Burrow, I.G.C. ‘A Romano-British Relief from Cadbury Camp, Tickenham, Avon’, in Thomas, N. Ed. Rescue Archaeology in the Bristol Region Bristol: Bristol City Museum. 1-8.

1978. ‘A Further Vessel by the Aldgate-Pulborough Potter’, Britannia 9, 393-394.

1975. with Fowler, P.J. and Hill, V.S. ‘Archaeology and the M5 Motorway: 4th Report’, Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc 95, 48-91.

1974. ‘Some Roman and some Post-Roman Pottery from Stanton Prior’, Proc Somerset Archaeol Nat Hist Soc 118, 44-46.

1974. with Fowler, P.J. ‘Archaeology and the M5 Motorway: 3rd Report’, Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc 93, 101-130.

1973. with Fowler, P.J. ‘Archaeology and the M5 Motorway: 2nd Report’, Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc 92, 21-81.

1969. with Biek, L ‘The Mortar Analysis’, in Wacher, J.S. -Ed, Excavations at Brough-on-Humber London: Society of Antiquaries. 163-169.

Articles in Conference Proceedings

2002. ‘The Roman Frontier in Cappadocia Reconsidered’, in Freeman, P.W., Bennett, J., Fiema, Z., and Hoffman, B., joint eds, Limes XVIII London: British Archaeological Reports S-1084. 301-312.

2002. ‘The Chronology of Hadrian’s Wall’, in Freeman, P.W., Bennett, J., Fiema, Z., and Hoffman, B., joint eds, Limes XVIII London: British Archaeological Reports S-1084. 825-834.

1986. ‘Fort Sizes as a Guide to Garrison Type’ in Unz, C. Ed. Studien zu den Militargrenzen Roms III Bonn: Konrad Theiss Verlag. 707-716.

1985. ‘The Defences and the Internal Buildings of some Roman Forts’ in Clack, P.A.G. and Ivy, J. Eds., Making Sense of Buildings London: Council for British Achaeology. 11-33.

1984. ‘The North-east in the Second Century’, in Wilson, P., et al -Eds. Settlement and Society in the Roman North Bradford: University of Bradford. 34-38.

1983. ‘The End of Roman Settlement in Northern England’, in Chapman, J.C. and Mytum, H. Eds. Settlement in Northern Britain, 1000 BC - AD 1000 London: British Archaeological Reports B-118. 205-232.

1980. ‘`Temporary Camps' on Hadrian's Wall’, in Hanson, W.S. and Keppie, L.F.J. Eds Roman Frontier Studies, 1979 London: British Archaeological Reports S-71. 151-172.