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Philippa Walton

Role: National Finds Adviser - Iron Age and Roman Coins
Database records prefix: BM

Address: The British Museum
Great Russell Street London GREATER LONDON WC1B 3DG

lat: 51.5194133 , long: -0.1269566

Short profile:

Philippa studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, and also Classics at Cambridge before joining Oxford Archaeology as Finds researcher. She has worked with finds assemblages from many sites, her favourite being the Hellenistic and Roman city of Zeugma, Turkey, where she managed the post excavation programme of finds research. Philippa is particularly interested in Roman metalwork.

Over the last 3 years, she has been reading for a PhD at UCL relating to the rural distribution of Roman coins, supervised by the great Sam Moorhead and Kris Lockyer.

Phone (work): +44(0) 20 7323 8432
Phone (fax):

Email address:

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Period breakdown

A breakdown of finds by period
Period Finds Records
Medieval 528 318
Roman 1727 1040
Early Medieval 330 191
Iron Age 577 70
Bronze Age 14 14
Unknown 28 22
Post Medieval 150 150
Neolithic 39 12
Mesolithic 6 6
Byzantine 1 1

Records breakdown

A breakdown of finds recorded
Year Quarter Finds Records
2005 4 179 166
2006 1 772 227
2006 2 240 215
2006 3 441 243
2006 4 613 204
2007 1 378 105
2007 2 367 281
2007 3 402 375
2008 3 9 9

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