Neal Payne

I am an archaeobotanist whose research focuses on Iron Age and Roman Britain. 

I recently completed my PhD in the Faculty of Classics, U. Cambridge. My thesis was titled, ‘An Archaeobotanical History of Arable Agriculture in Yorkshire (4000 BCE - 1100 CE)’, and was supervised by Prof. Martin Millett.

I completed a Bachelor of Arts in Environment with Archaeology and English Majors and a Master of Arts in Archaeology at Simon Fraser University (Canada). My MA thesis was titled, ‘The Archaeological Foodscape of Roman Kent and Essex’, and was supervised by Dr. Sabrina Higgins.

I have been involved in the Aldborough Roman Town Project’s excavations at Isurium Brigantium for the last four years and have previous excavated at Pompeii. 

Currently, I am the Research Associate in the Economy of the Roman Fens on the Fenscapes project.