Dr Neal Payne

Currently, I am the Research Associate on the Economy of the Roman Fens on the Fenscapes Project. I am also Research Associate at Fitzwilliam College and a Consulting Scholar at Penn Museum.

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.