UCL Institute of Archaeology

• BA, MSc, PhD
• Lecturer
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCL1006 Introduction to Archaeological Field Methods and Techniques
• Course Coordinator: ARCL1002 Introduction to Roman Archaeology
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCL2031 Advanced field techniques
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCL2001 Roman Coinage
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCL3065 Selected topics in the archaeology of the Later Roman Empire
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCLG021 Archaeological computing and statistics
• Kris jointly teaches: ARCL2004 History and Archaeology of Roman Britain

Research Interests

• Iron age and Roman archaeology and numismatics particularly in Romania and Eastern Europe.
• Nationalism, ethnicity and cultural identity
• Statistics, computing and publication

Research Directory

• Coin hoards of the Roman Republic
• Noviodunum Archaeological Project

Collaborations

Currently in a major project on the site of Noviodunum, Tulcea, Romania with Adrian Popescu (Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge) and Timothy J. T. Sly (Archaeology, University of Southampton).

Was also involved in the British Academy funded Celtic Inscribed Stones Project.

Kris is also Director of the Welwyn Archaeological Society.

Educational Background

• 1976-1983 The Howard School, Welwyn Garden City.
• 1984-1987 St Aidan's College, University of Durham BA (Hons) Archaeology.
• 1988-1989 University of Southampton MSc (Archaeological Science, archaeological computing)
• 1990-1996 Institute of Archaeology, University College London PhD: "Multivariate Money. A statistical analysis of Roman Republican coin hoards with special reference to material from Romania" [online]

• Lockyear, K. (2008) Aspects of Roman Republican coins found in Late Iron Age Dacia. In: V. Spinei and L. Munteanu (eds) Miscellanea numismatica Antiquitatis. In honorem septagenarii magistri Virgilii Mihailescu-Bîrliba oblata, pp. 147-176. Editura Academiei Romane, Bucharest, Romania, Honoraria (4). (Available online)
• Lockyear, K. (2007). 'Where do we go from here? Recording and analysing Roman coins from archaeological excavations.' Britannia 38: 211-224. 
• Lockyear, K. (2007) Patterns and Process in Late Roman Republican Coin Hoards, 157-2 BC.  Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, International Series 1733.
• Lockyear, K., T. Sly and A. Popescu with contributions from Mihaela Ciausescu, Clive Orton, Jane Sidell and Robin Symonds (2006-2007). 'The Noviodunum Archaeological Project 2000-2004: results and conclusions from the pilot seasons.' Peuce, New Series, 3-4, pp. 121-158. (Available online)
• Lockyear,K. (2006). Review of Architecture in Roman Britain by Guy de la Bedoyere. American Journal of Archaeology 110, 524-525
• Lockyear,K. (2006). Review of The Archaeology of Roman Towns: Studies in Honor of John S. Wacher edited by Pete Wilson. American Journal of Archaeology Online Book Reviews 110(3), 1-2
• Lockyear,K. (2005). Review of Romano-British Coin Hoards by Richard Abdy. American Journal of Archaeology 109, 328-329
• Lockyear, K. (2004) The Late Iron Age background to Roman Dacia. In Hanson, W.S. and Haynes, I.P. (eds), Roman Dacia. The Making of a Provincial Society. Journal of Roman Archaeology. Supplementary Series No. 56, pp. 33-74. Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
• Lockyear, K. (2003) At the edge of empires: the Noviodunum project, Romania. Archaeology International [6], 21-24.
• Lockyear, K, (2000). Site Finds in Roman Britain: a comparison of techniques, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 19(4), 397-423 (with a Postscript by Richard Reece)
• Davies, W, Graham-Campbell, J, Handley, M, Kershaw, P, Koch, J T, le Duc, G & Lockyear, K, (2000) The Inscriptions of Early Medieval Brittany. Celtic Studies Publications: Oakville, Connecticut and Aberystwyth
• Lockyear, K, (2000). Experiments with Detrended Correspondence Analysis, in K Lockyear, T J T Sly & V Mihailescu-Birliba, 9-17
• Lockyear, K, Sly, T J T & Mihailescu-Birliba, V (eds). (2000. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 1996. British Archaeological Reports International Series 845
• Lockyear, K, (1999). Hoard Structure and Coin Production in Antiquity --- an Empirical Investigation, The Numismatic Chronicle 159, 215-243
• Lockyear, K, (1999). Coins, copies and kernals - a note on the potential of Kernal Density Estimates, in L Dingwall, S Exon, V Gaffney, S Laflin & M. van Leusen (eds). Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 1997, British Archaeological Reports International Series 750, 85-90
• Lockyear, K, (1997). The supply of Roman Republican denarii to Romania, Studii si Cercetari de Numismatica, 11, 85-102
• Lockyear, K, (1996). Dmax based cluster analysis and the supply of coinage to Iron Age Dacia, in H Kamermans & F Kelly (eds). Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 1995. Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 28(1), 165-178
• Lockyear, K, (1996). Computer-aided publication in practice', in H Kamermans & F Kelly (eds). Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 1995. Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 28(2), 531--543
• Lockyear, K, (1995). Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 1993, in J Wilcock & K Lockyear (eds). British Archaeological Reports International Series 598
• Green, F J & Lockyear, K, (1994). Seeds, sherds, and samples: site formation processes at the Waitrose site, Romsey, in R Luff & P Rowley-Conwy. Whither Environmental Archaeology? 91-104. Oxbow Monographs 38
• Lockyear, K, (1993. Coin hoard formation revisted..., in J Andresen, T Madsen & I Scollar (eds). Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 1992, 367-376. Aarhus
• Green, F J & Lockyear, K, (1992). 'Plant remains from buried soils, Romsey, Hampshire, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 73(1-4), 57-70
• Deacon, M G & Lockyear, K, (1991). The fourth century coin hoard from Tingrith, Bedfordshire Archaeology, 19, 106-7
• Lockyear, K, (1991). Simulating coin hoard formation, in K Lockyear & S P Q Rahtz (eds), Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 1990,195-206. British Archaeological Reports International Series 565
• Lockyear, K & Rahtz, S P Q (eds), (1991). Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 1990. British Archaeological Reports International Series 565

Current Students

• Phillipa Walton An applied numismatic analysis of the PAS Roman coin data (second supervisors Sally Worrell  and Sam Moorhead)

Second Supervisor

• Ruth Fillery Travis A diachronic analysis of Romano-British iron production in the Exmoor region (joint supervision with Joe Flatman; principal supervisor Marcos Martinón-Torres)
• Charlene Murphy Pompeii, A changing city: The archaeobotanical analysis of Regio VI Insula I, Pompeii Italy (principal supervisor Dorian Fuller)
• Effrosyni Nomikou A museological approach to numismatic exhibitions. The case study of the Ashmolean Museum (joint principal supervisors Theano Moussouri and Sally MacDonald)
• Reuben Thorpe Urban formation and transformation: Perspectives on social and stratigraphic complexity from Roman urban centres (principal supervisor Tim Williams)