Institutions Bournemouth University Name Miles Russell Fields Lecturer, Author | Known for Time Team
Duropolis Institution Bournemouth University | |
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Born Miles Anton Russell
8 April 1967 (age 57)
Brighton, England ( 1967-04-08 ) Books Unroman Britain: Exposing, Flint Mines in Neolithic Britain, Prehistoric Sussex, Roman Sussex, Piltdown Man: The Secret Lif | ||
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Dr Miles Russell (born 8 April 1967) is a British archaeologist best known for his work and publications on the prehistoric and Roman periods and for his television appearances.
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Personal life
Russell was born and educated in Brighton, England, and moved to Bournemouth in 1993 where he has worked at Bournemouth University and, since 2009, has worked on the Duropolis "Big Dig" with co-directors Paul Cheetham and Harry Manley. He has written 13 books, covering the Neolithic and Roman periods and has appeared numerous times on television, most notably, the Channel 4 television series Time Team alongside Dr Alice Roberts and presenter Tony Robinson.
Career
As a graduate of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, he subsequently worked as a field officer for UCL's Field Archaeology Unit and a Project Manager for the Oxford Archaeological Unit. In 1993 he joined the staff of Bournemouth University, where he is a senior lecturer, subsequently conducting fieldwork on various projects across southern England, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Sicily, Germany and Russia. He obtained his PhD, on the Neolithic monumental architecture of the South Downs in 2000 and became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2006. He is director of Regnum and co-director of the Durotriges Project, both investigating the transition from the Iron Age to Roman period.
In 2003 Russell published the results of a three-year project investigating the Piltdown Man hoax which strongly implicated that the perpetrator of the fraud was the 'finder' Charles Dawson. In 2008 he co-directed excavations within Stonehenge, together with Professor Tim Darvill and Professor Geoffrey Wainwright. In 2013 Russell and colleague Harry Manley identified a fragment of a Roman statue, previously known as the "Bosham Head", as representing the Emperor Trajan. Russell and Manley have also identified a damaged statue of the young emperor Nero from Fishbourne Roman Palace in West Sussex and have tentatively identified a Roman statue held at Petworth House as also being a representation of the Emperor Nero.