Staff Profiles

When working at Newcastle University I was Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Artefact Studies and Reader in Roman Material Culture, having previously been Director of the University's Archaeological Museums. 

Current Fellowships and Honorary Positions:

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; Fellow of the Museums Association; Fellow of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Arts; Keeper of Collections for and Trustee of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne; Honorary Keeper, Secretary and Trustee of the Clayton Collection; Trustee of the Corbridge Excavation Fund; Chair of the Marc Fitch Fund; Trustee of the Norma Lipman Fund; President pf the Border Archaeological Society; Trustee of the Woodhorn Trust (Museums Northumberland); Chair of the Morpeth Bagpipe Museum Liaison Committee. I also serve on a number of other ad hoc committees and am a member of the Council for British Archaeology, the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, the Society of Jewellery Historians, the Finds Research Group and the Roman Finds Group.

In 2014  was awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours List for services to archaeology.

Most of my research has been in the field of Roman artefacts, particularly those from Roman Britain, although I have worked on assemblages across the Empire. Although a Romanist by inclination, I have published papers on a number of non-Roman topics, including the artefacts from medieval Sudan.

I have several projects in hand at the moment:

1. I am currently finishing the eleventh and last volume of the Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani for Great Britain. This covers Northumberland south of the Stanegate, sites in Tyne and Wear not  covered by CSIR I.1; County Durham; sites in Cumbria not covered by CSIR I.6; Lancashire and Derbyshire. A subsidiary project is the British Academy funded project called  'Britain's Most Elusive Roman Sculpture', run in association with Professor Ian Haynes, is scanning objects for inclusion in CSIR I.3.

2. I am working with Fraser Hunter of the National Museums of Scotland on the British volume in the Romischen Funden im Barbaricum series for the Romisch Germansiche Kommission.

3. I am writing a book on the impact the Roman invasion had on the mental and physical wellbeing of the British popluation.

4. I have various small finds projects to finish off in the Sudan and Libya.

• Allason-Jones L. Git in Romeins Brittannie. In: Sas, K., Thon, H, ed. Schone Schijn. Limburg, Belgium: Bracelet. Tongeren, 2002, pp.40-42, 150, 151, 199-201.
• Allason-Jones L. The material culture of Hadrian's Wall. In: Limes XVIII: proceedings of the XVIIIth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies. 2000, Amman, Jordan: Archaeopress.
• Allason-Jones L. Material Culture and identity. In: James, S., Millett, M, ed. Britons and Romans: Advancing an Archaeological Agenda. London: Council for British Archaeology, 2001, pp.19-25.
• Allason-Jones L. Roman Woman: Everyday Life in Hadrian's Britain. London: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, 2000.
• Allason-Jones L. Health Care in the Roman North. Britannia 1999, 30, 133-146.
• Allason-Jones L. What is a military assemblage?. In: Eleventh International Roman Military Equipment Conference. 1999, Mainz, Germany: Armatura Press.
• Allason-Jones L. Women and the Roman Army in Britain. In: The Roman Army as a Community: including papers of a conference. 1999, Birkbeck College, University of London: Journal of Roman Archaeology.
• Allason-Jones L. Roman jet in the Yorkshire Museum. York: Yorkshire Museum, 1996.
• Allason-Jones L. The actress and the bishop: evidence for working women in Roman Britain. In: Women in industry and technology from prehistory to the present day : current research and the museum experience : proceedings from the 1994 WHAM conference. London: Museum of London, 1996, pp.67-75.
• Allason-Jones L. Ear-rings in Roman Britain. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1989.
• Allason-Jones L, Bishop MC. Excavations at Roman Corbridge: the hoard. London: Historic Buildings & Monuments Commission for England, 1988.
• Allason-Jones L, McKay B. Coventina's well : a shrine on Hadrian's Wall. Hexham: Trustees of the Clayton Collection, 1985.
• Allason-Jones L, Miket RF. The catalogue of small finds from South Shields roman fort. Newcastle upon Tyne: Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1984.