Dr Caroline Pudney
Senior Lecturer
Biography
Caroline joined the academic team in 2014 moving from her role as Community Archaeologist for Cadw, The Welsh Government’s Historic Environment Service. She has a background in Iron Age and Roman archaeology, commercial archaeology, and public and community engagement (among other things). Caroline has experience communicating archaeology to the public through a range of media and is passionate about providing opportunities for people to get involved in, and inspired by, archaeology.
Teaching and Supervision
Caroline teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate levels in archaeology and heritage practice. She especially teaches on later Prehistoric and Roman archaeology, material culture (theory and practice), fieldwork and archaeological methods, as well as public archaeology and heritage.
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Caroline is an active researcher and fieldwork archaeologist. She has worked on research projects involving Cadw, the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments Wales, Wrexham Museum, Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust, Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum Wales, HMP & YOI Parc Bridgend, HMP Berwyn, and the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Details of some of her research can be on the Academia.edu and Researchgate.net websites. For example, Caroline has been actively involved in excavations at the Roman legionary fortress in Caerleon, (Newport, Wales, UK) with Cardiff University, co-directed excavations in partnership with Cadw at Llanmelin Wood Camp, an Iron Age hillfort near Newport (Wales, UK) and the fossilised landscape at Hen Caerwys, Flintshire (Wales, UK), with Cadw and the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. Currently, Caroline is working a number of research projects. She is currently co-director of a project investigating Roman rural settlement in the lower Dee valley in partnership with Wrexham Museum, including the exciting discovery and excavation of North Wales’ first structurally attested Romano-British villa near Rossett, Wrexham. The project builds on the recent In the Footsteps of Trebellius Maximus project which investigated the archaeological context of the Rossett lead pig. Caroline is co-leading the renewal of the Roman part of the Research Framework for the Archaeology of Wales with Dr David Roberts (Cardiff University). She is particularly keen to collaborate with partners seeking to understand the social benefits of archaeology and heritage, research human-object relationships in the later prehistoric and Roman world, as well as non-linear frontiers in Roman Britain. Caroline is always open to supervising research students on any areas connected to her specialisms but would be particularly interested in proposals on: Romano-British material culture Wales, Cheshire and the Marches during the Iron Age and/or Roman period Deposition in the Iron Age Human-Animal Relationships in the Iron Age of Britain Iron Age Coins and Imagery Archaeology in formal and informal education (especially the New Curriculum for Wales) Public Archaeology and Roman Britain in the 21st Century