Dr Peter Halkon
Lecturer in Archaeology
Programme Leader: Part-time Degree in
Archaeology,
Joint Degree in History and
Archaeology
<Archaeology Research
Section>
Phone: 01482 466629
Email: a.p.halkon@hull.ac.uk
PETER HALKON was educated at Bridlington School, read Ancient
and Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of
Liverpool, has a PGCE from the College of Ripon and York, St John
and an MA in Archaeology from the University of Durham. His PhD,
entitled "Archaeology and environment in a changing East Yorkshire
landscape: The Foulness Valley c. 800 BC to c. AD 400" was
undertaken in the Geography Department at Hull University.
Peter was formerly a Teacher of History and Archaeology at
Bransholme High School, Hull and Wilberforce Sixth Form College,
Hull. He was Education Officer for the Council for British
Archaeology and York Archaeological Trust (1991-4). He is a Fellow
of the Society of Antiquaries of London .
Teaching
Peter Halkon currently offers the following modules as well as
contributing to 6 other modules in the Certificate and
Diploma in Archaeology programmes:
- 20221 : Britons, Angles, Saxons and Vikings:
The Archaeology of Early Medieval England
- 20316 : The Archaeology of Roman Britain
- 20605 : The Parisi: Iron Age and Roman East
Yorkshire
Current Research
Since 1980 he has been co-directing a landscape archaeology
project focused on the Foulness Valley, East Yorkshire, "The Valley
of the First Iron Masters" with Professor Martin Millett
(University of Cambridge). This project was runner up in the
Pitt-Rivers Award of the British Archaeological Awards 1988, and
BAe Systems won the Wedgewood Award for sponsorship in 2000 for
their financial support. For more details see the separate
Archaeology
Pages.
In March 2003 Peter and Ian Dolphin, (Head of eStrategy,
Academic Services) together with the East Riding Archaeological
Society were awarded £84,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund for the
construction of a Web based virtual landscape "Valley of the First
Iron Masters", (http://www.ironmasters.hull.ac.uk/).
Launched in December 2004, this website gained one of the
Vice-Chancellor’s Awards at the University in 2005.
Amongst other research, Peter, together with Dr Jeremy Taylor
(University of Leicester), Helen Woodhouse (University of
Southampton) and Helen Fenwick (Department of History, University
of Hull) and Dr Henry Chapman (Department of Archaeology,
University of Birmingham) have been surveying the site of a Roman
Temple near Millington in East Yorkshire. A member of the Heritage
SIMVIS group based in the Department of Computer Science, at Hull
University, he also has an interest in computer based Virtual
Landscapes.
Some Recent Publications
| Books |
| 2008 |
“Archaeology and environment in a changing East
Yorkshire landscape: The Foulness Valley c. 800 BC to c. AD
400” British Archaeological Reports 472, Oxford |
| 1999 |
With Millett, M. (eds) Rural Settlement and industry:
Studies in the Iron Age and Roman Archaeology of lowland East
Yorkshire. Yorkshire Archaeological Report 4, Yorkshire
Archaeological Society (Leeds) |
2005 (2nd reprint)
Originally published 1999 |
(ed.) Further Light on the Parisi- Recent Research in Iron
Age and Roman East Yorkshire. East Riding Archaeological
Society, University of Hull Department of History, East Riding
Archaeological Research Trust (Hull) |
| Chapters in Books |
| 2007 |
“Valley of the First Iron Masters”. In P. Y Milcent (ed)
L'économie du fer protohistorique : de la production à la
consommation du métal. Actes colloque AFEAF Toulouse
(Association Française pour l'Etude de l'Age du Fer),
Aquitania Supplément 14/2 (Bordeaux)
151-163
|
| 2006 |
“Prehistoric wetland environments and human exploitation of the
Foulness Valley East
Yorkshire, UK”. In M. C. Lillie and S. Ellis (eds) Wetland
Archaeology and Environments: Regional issues, global
perspectives Oxbow Books, 91-107.
|
| 2006 |
“Reconstructing an Iron Age and Roman Landscape – New Research
in The Foulness Valley, East Yorkshire, England’. In S. Campana and
M. Forte (eds) From Space to Place 2nd International
Conference on Remote sensing and Archaeology, CNR Rome, Italy.
British Archaeological Reports International Series 1568,
235-241.
|
| 2004 |
Valley of the First Iron Masters – a case study in inclusion and
interpretation in P. Frodsham (ed.) Integrating the ambiguous:
archaeology and interpretation in the 21st century. British
Archaeological Reports British Series 362 (Oxford), 75-81
|
| 2003 |
'The Roman pottery Industry at Holme-on-Spalding Moor, East
Yorkshire', in J. Price and P. Wilson (eds.) Craft and Industry
in Roman Yorkshire and the North. Oxbow Books (Oxford), 21-33
and Millett, M. 2000, The Landscape Archaeology of the Foulness
Valley East Yorkshire, in J. Harding (ed.) Northern Pasts -
Interpretations of the Later Prehistory of Northern England and
Southern Scotland. British Archaeological Reports (British Series
302) (Oxford), 81-93
|
| 2003 |
‘Researching an Ancient Landscape: The Foulness Valley, East
Yorkshire’ in T. Manby, S. Moorhouse and P. Ottaway (eds.) The
Archaeology of Yorkshire An Assessment at the
Beginning of the 21st Century. Yorkshire Archaeological
Society (Leeds) with English Heritage, CBA, 264-71
|
| Articles |
| 2009 |
“Ceremony and Carpentry? Neolithic stone axeheads in an
East Yorkshire Landscape” - Internet
Archaeology Issue 26 - Implement Petrology theme Submitted:
February 2009; Published: September 2009 Words: 7321 (63KB);
Images: 11 (1.8MB) (http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue26/index.html) |
| 2009 |
Beyond the cockpit - the role of aerial photographs for
archaeology in UK Higher Education. In D. Cowley &
R. Palmer (eds) Collected papers and report of the
AARG/EAC Working Party on Aerial Archaeology Occasional Publication
of the Aerial Archaeology Research Group No. 1 Aerial Archaeology
Research Group ISSN 2040-526X |
| 2005 |
“Creating an award winning website for Community Archaeology
and Research – “Valley of the First Iron Masters” - a case study
(http://www.ironmasters.hull.ac.uk/)”
In M. Mudge, N. Ryan, and R. Scopigno, VAST 2005 The 6th
International Symposium on Virtual Reality Archaeology and Cultural
Heritage, Pisa, Italy |
| 2005 |
and Innes J. ‘Settlement and Economy in a Changing
Prehistoric Lowland Landscape – An East Yorkshire (UK) Case Study’.
European Journal of Archaeology
8(3), 225-259 |
| 2003 |
and Martin Millett ‘East Riding: An Iron Age and Roman
landscape revealed’, in Current Archaeology 187,
303-309 |
| 2003 |
With Chapman, H, Fenwick H, Taylor, J, Woodhouse H.
The Rediscovery of the Roman temple at Millington, East
YorkshireARA- The Bulletin of the Association for
Roman Archaeology 15 |
| 2000 |
and Millett M. 'Foulness-Valley of the First Iron Masters'.
Current Archaeology 169 (London), 20-29 |
| 1999 |
'A Roman Villa near Pocklington'. Roman Britain 1998.
Britannia 30 |
| 1998 |
'A Roman Relief from Bolton East Yorkshire' Britannia
29, Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (London),
321-326 |