Dr Neal Payne

I am an archaeobotanist specialising in Iron Age and Roman Britain.

I am currently the Research Associate on the Economy of the Roman Fens strand of the Fenscapes Project.

I completed my PhD in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. My doctoral thesis, An Archaeobotanical History of Arable Agriculture in Yorkshire (4000 BCE–1100 CE), was supervised by Professor Martin Millett.

I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Environment (with majors in Archaeology and English) and a Master of Arts in Archaeology from Simon Fraser University, Canada. My MA thesis, The Archaeological Foodscape of Roman Kent and Essex, was supervised by Dr Sabrina Higgins.

I am currently involved in the Aldborough Roman Town Project at Isurium Brigantum and have previously undertaken archaeological fieldwork at Pompeii and at Molyvoti in northern Greece.