Graduate Student, Department for Continuing Education
Kellogg College
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David Griffiths
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About
I am a landscape archaeology post-graduate at Kellogg College, University of Oxford. I graduated from the University of Chester with a degree in archaeology where I received the David & Betty Evans Memorial Prize for Academic Achievement & Services to Archaeology.
Whilst there, I completed a detailed study of Thingwall township for my undergraduate dissertation, considering its role as a purported site of Viking assembly, as well as an analysis of past and present methodologies used to identify assembly sites in the landscape. For this work, I was awarded the Chester Archaeological Society Dissertation Prize and the John Hurst Prize from the Society of Medieval Archaeology 2011.
My main research interests lie in post-Roman landscapes of the North West, with a focus upon the Mersey & Dee basin areas. I have a particular interest in post-Roman settlement in the Wirral Peninsula, and Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian assembly sites.
I am now concentrating on the Early Medieval estates of Eastham and Bromborough and also Poulton-cum-Spital in Wirral, considering their defensive positions through analysis of LIDAR, maps, topographic surveys and excavation.
I also have a passion for making archaeology in all of its forms accessible to young people and people with autism and learning difficulties. Through various projects, I am trying to shift public perceptions of archaeology away from the trench, and towards their local landscape and standing buildings. In 2010 I set up a not-for-profit organisation called "Archaeology for Schools" as a vehicle for this work.
