Professor Colin Haselgrove

I studied Biochemistry at Sussex and then Archaeology at Cambridge. I came to Leicester in 2005 having taught at Durham University from 1977-2004. I was Head of the School of Archaeology & Ancient History from 2006-2012 and retired in 2021. I was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2009.

My research focuses on socio-political and socio-economic change in later prehistoric Europe. Particular interests include the archaeology of early coinage; Iron Age centralisation processes and settlement landscapes; the Iron Age-Roman transition in north-west Europe; Iron Age material culture and deposition; and radiocarbon dating and Iron Age chronology.

Current projects

• A revised radiocarbon chronology for the Iron Age in central southern England
• The archaeology of the first Roman invasions of Britain
• Settlement patterns in the first millennia BC and AD in southern Picardy

Books

• The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age Oxford: OUP,2023 (ed with K. Rebay-Salisbury & P.S. Wells).
• Iron Age and Roman coin hoards in Britain Oxford: Oxbow books, 2020 (with R. Bland, A Chadwick, E Ghey, D Mattingly, A Rogers & J Taylor)
• Contact, concord and conquest: Britons and Romans at Scotch Corner, by D. W. Fell. Barnard Castle, NAA monograph series 5. (ed. with A. Crowson & M. Bishop).
• Julius Caesar’s Battle for Gaul: new archaeological perspectives. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2019. (ed. with A. P. Fitzpatrick).
• Cartimandua's capital? The late Iron Age royal site at Stanwick, North Yorkshire, fieldwork and analysis 1981–2011. York: CBA Research Report 175, 2016
• The Archaeology of Money. Leicester: Leicester Archaeology Monograph 24, 2016 (ed. with S Krmnicek).
• The later prehistory of North-Western Europe: the evidence of development-led fieldwork.Oxford: OUP2016 (with L. Webley, M. Vander Linden, R. Bradley)

Journal articles and book chapters

• The Iron Age. in V. Cummings & S. Driscoll (eds), The Archaeology of Britain: an introduction from earliest times to the twenty-first century, 149–71. London, Routledge, 2025, 3rd ed.(with M. Laing)
• Late Iron Age and Roman brooches, in J. Tabor, Cattle, community and place. The archaeology of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, 173–178. CAU Landscape Archives: New Archaeologies of the Cambridge region (5). Cambridge: McDonald Institute, 2024
• Iron Age coins from Kingsholm, Gloucester, Trans. Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 141 (2024), 117–130.
• Caesar in Britain : Britain in Rome, in J. K. Jacobsen, R. Raja & S. G. Saxkjaer (eds), Caesar. Rome and beyond. New Research and Recent discoveries, 97–113. Rome Studies 4. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023            (with A. Fitzpatrick)
• Continuity and change at the end of the 2nd century BC in southern England and the cross-Channel zone, in V. Guichard (ed), Continuités et discontinuités à la fin du IIe siècle avant notre ère dans l’espace celtique et à sa périphérie, 202–225. Glux-en-Glenne: Coll.Bibracte 32, 2023 (with A. Fitzpatrick & P. Lowther)..
• Iron Age coins, in T. Moore, A biography of power. Research and excavations at the Iron Age oppidum of Bagendon, Gloucestershire (1979–2017): 300–313. Oxford, Archaeopress, 2020.
• Exploring settlement dynamics through radiocarbon dating, in T Romankiewicz, M Fernandez-Götz, G Lock & O. Büchsenschütz (eds), Enclosing space, opening new ground: Iron Age studies from Scotland to mainland Europe, 103–111. Oxford: Oxbow, 2019 (with D. Hamilton).
• Palynology of Iron Age and Gallo-Roman Archaeological Sediments from Beaurieux Les Grèves, Aisne, France, Vegetation History & Archaeobotany 28, 2019, 399–416 (with J.B Innes). DOI 10.1007/s00334-018-0704-9
• ‘Celtic cowboys’ reborn: application of multi-isotopic analysis (δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S) to examine mobility and movement of animals within an Iron Age British society, J. Archaeol. Science 101, 2019, 189–198 (with D Hamilton, K L Sayle, M. Boyd & G Cook). DOI 10.1016/j.jas.2018.04.006
• Iron Age coin production in Britain: some new evidence, in E. Hiriart, S. Martin, S. Nieto-Pelletier & F. Olmer (eds), Monnaies et archéologie en Europe celtique. Mélanges en l'honneur de Katherine Gruel, 197–202. Glux-en-Glenne: Coll. Bibracte 29, 2018.
• The Iron Age coins. In M. Fulford, A. Clarke, E. Durham & N. Pankhurst, Late Iron Age Calleva. The pre-conquest occupation at Silchester Insula IX, 77–91. London, Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (Britannia Monograph 32), 2018.
• Radiocarbon dating and modelling of a late Iron Age cremation cemetery at Westhampnett, West Sussex, UK, Archäol. Korrespondenzblatt 47 (3), 2017, 359–81 (with A Fitzpatrick & D. Hamilton)
• Modern borders and the later prehistory of northwest Europe, in R. Crellin, C. Fowler & R. Tipping (eds) Prehistory Without Borders: the prehistoric archaeology of the Tyne-Forth region, 16–24. Oxford: Oxbow, 2016 (with M. Vander Linden, L. Webley)
• The impact of Bayesian chronologies on the British Iron Age, World Archaeol. 47, 2015, 642–60 (with D. Hamilton, C. Gosden). DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2015.1053976
• Hoarding and other forms of metalwork deposition in Iron Age Britain, in J. Naylor & R. Bland (eds), Hoarding and deposition of metalwork: a British Perspective, 24–37. Oxford, BAR, 2015.
• Keeping up with the neighbours? Changing perceptions of later prehistoric societies in central Britain, in F. Hunter & I. Ralston (eds), The Later Bronze and Iron Ages of Scotland in their European Setting, 117–35. Edinburgh, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2015

BSc (Sussex) MA PhD (Cambridge) FBA FSA FSA (Scot) FHEA