Stephen Upex has written on a wide variety of topics related to British landscape history and archaeology and his interests range from prehistoric settlement, Roman and Saxon farming to medieval open fields systems – a topic which formed the subject of his PhD dissertation. He was Professor of Landscape Archaeology at the University of Brunei from 1996- 2008 and has published extensively on aspects of South East Asian archaeology and culture. Recently he directed five seasons of excavation at a Saxon site in Northamptonshire. He has contributed to several Time Team programmes for Channel Four and has just finished filming a programme on Roman Godmanchester. His book on the Romans in the East of England was published in 2008.
Stephen is currently writing up a series of landscape and archaeological reports and books on sites within the East Midlands. Two of these have just been published- one on 4thcentury pottery kilns (Archaeological Journal) at Stibbington and the other (Britannia) on the major palatial Roman structure at Castor near Peterborough. A third volume, on the Roman landscape and settlement at Ferry Meadows (Peterborough) is about to be published shortly. Research interests include various aspects related to medieval agriculture and landscape and the archaeology of Roman and Saxon settlement. Current research projects include a landscape survey and the partial excavation of the Roman fort at Water Newton (north Cambs).
Stephen is a Tutor at Madingley Hall Cambridge, in addition he lectures widely within the UK, and works as a freelance archaeologist and consultant. He is a member of the Institute for Field Archaeologists and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
