| • Science | • People | • Locations | • Timeline |
After reading archaeology and anthropology at the University of Cambridge, he became a lecturer at the University of Bristol in 1963. Fascinated by the Roman remains in nearby Bath he threw himself into a programme of excavation and publication. His energy and intelligence drew attention and in 1966 he became an unusually young Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton. There he became involved in the excavation (1961-8) of the Roman palace at Fishbourne, Sussex.
Another southern site led him away from the Roman period. He began a long series of summer excavations (1969-1988) of the Iron-Age hill fort at DaneburyDanebury is a an Iron Age hill fort in Hampshire in the United Kingdom, around 12 miles north west of Winchester. The approximately five hectare site was excavated by Barry Cunliffe in the 1970s. The hill fort was occupied from the 5th century BC until ar in HampshireHampshire is a county on the south coast of England. The 2001 census gave the population of the administrative county as 1. 24 million; the population including Portsmouth and Southampton was around 1. It borders on Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Surrey an. He continued to work at Danebury after moving to Oxford in 1972 and is currently involved in the Danebury Environs Project . His interest in Iron AgeIn mythology, the Iron Age is the age following the golden, silver and bronze ages and characterized by a general degeneration of talent and virtue, and of literary excellence. In Roman literature the Iron Age is commonly regarded as beginning after the t Britain and Europe generated a number of publications and he became an acknowledged authority on the Celts.
He was President of the Council for British ArchaeologyThe Council for British Archaeology is a British organisation that promotes archaeology within the United Kingdom. Since 1945 the Council has been involved in publicising and generating public support for British archaeology; formulating and disseminating 1976-79. He has been a member of the Ancient Monuments Advisory Committee of English HeritageEnglish Heritage is a United Kingdom government body with a broad remit of managing the historic environment of England. Its best known role is that it is the steward of a large number of significant historical and archaeological sites, from Stonehenge to since 1984 and of the Advisory Committee of the Discovery Programme (Ireland) since 1991. He is a Governor of the Museum of LondonThe Museum of London is situated on a street named London Wall at its junction with Aldersgate Street, near St Paul's Cathedral. It documents the history of London from the Palaeolithic to the present day. Fragments of the old London Wall can be seen just.