Sheppard Frere

Dr Sheppard Sunderland Frere is a British historian and archaeologist studying the Roman Empire.

Sheppard "Sam" Frere was a classics master and housemaster at Lancing College c.1949-52 when he was in charge of the excavations at Canterbury during his summer vacations. He made a number of broadcasts about his work at that time. He left Lancing in 1954 to become a university lecturer in archaeology. His family details and dates are given under the family of 'Frere' in Burke's 'Landed Gentry' for 1969. For three seasons early in the 1970s, he was in charge of the archaeological summer school that excavated the Roman Fort at Strageath, near Crieff, in Perthshire.

Between 1955 and 1961 he excavated at Verulamium. He then became Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces at the University of London from 1961 to 1966 before becoming Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at Oxford University. He is cousin to paleontologist Mary Leakey. [Mary Leakey, "Disclosing the Past: An Autobiography", Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1984, p. 14.] He is now retired.

"Publications include:"
*Problems of the iron age in Southern Britain; papers given at a C.B.A. conference held at the Institute of Archaeology, December 12 to 14, 1958. Edited by S. S. Frere. [London, University of London, Institute of Archaeology, 1961] .
*Britannia, A History of Roman Britain, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1967. Or, London, Routledge & K. Paul, 1967.
*Verulamium excavations, London, Society of Antiquaries of London; (Distributed by Thames and Hudson), 1972-<1983 >. ISBN 085431007X (v. 1)
*Britannia : a history of Roman Britain. London : Cardinal, 1974. ISBN 0351163107
*Britannia : a history of Roman Britain (revised edition). London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. ISBN 0710089163
*Roman Britain from the air (with J.K.S. St Joseph). Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983. ISBN 0521250889
*Britannia : a history of Roman Britain. (3rd ed., extensively rev.) London ; New York : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987. ISBN 0710212151
*Trajan’s Column : a new edition of the Cichorius plates / introduction, commentary, and notes by Frank Lepper and Sheppard Frere. Gloucester, UK ; Wolfboro, N.H., USA : Alan Sutton, 1988. ISBN 0862994675
*Strageath : excavations within the Roman fort, 1973-86 / by S.S. Frere and J.J. Wilkes ; with contributions by Anne Anderson ... [et al.] . London : Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1989. ISBN 0907764118

"Festschriften:"

*Rome and her northern provinces : papers presented to Sheppard Frere in honour of his retirement from the Chair of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, University of Oxford, 1983 / edited by Brian Hartley and John Wacher. Gloucester [Gloucestershire] : A. Sutton, 1983. [Includes "A bibliography of the published works of Sheppard Frere": p. 4-12.] ISBN 0862990467
*Romanitas : essays on Roman archaeology in honour of Sheppard Frere on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday / edited by R.J.A. Wilson. Oxford : Oxbow, 2006. ISBN 1842172484 ; ISBN 9781842172483

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