![]() Another site in southern England led him away from the Roman period. There he became involved in the excavation (1961–1968) of the Fishbourne Roman Palace in Sussex. In 1966 he became an unusually young professor when he took the chair at the newly founded Department of Archaeology at the University of Southampton. Fascinated by the Roman remains in nearby Bath he embarked on a programme of excavation and publication. After studying at Portsmouth Northern Grammar School (now the Mayfield School) and reading archaeology and anthropology at St John’s College, Cambridge, he became a lecturer at the University of Bristol in 1963. BiographyĬunliffe’s decision to become an archaeologist was sparked at the age of nine by the discovery of Roman remains on his uncle’s farm in Somerset. Since 2007, he has been an Emeritus Professor. ![]() ![]() He was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2007. Sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe, CBE, FBA, FSA (born 10 December 1939), known as Barry Cunliffe, is a British archaeologist and academic. ![]() ![]() His interest in Iron Age Britain and Europe generated a number of publications and he became an acknowledged authority on the Celts. Photo by Richard Bartz, Wikimedia Commons A stone used in Neolithic rituals, in Detmerode, Wolfsburg, Germany. ![]()
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