Barri Jones

Geraint Dyfed Barri Jones (April 4, 1936 in St Helens, England - July 16, 1999) was a classical scholar and archaeologist.

Born to Welsh-speaking parents, Barri Jones attended High Wycombe Royal Grammar School (where his father was the Senior Modern Languages master and his mother also taught) from 1947 to 1954, and won a Welsh Foundation Scholarship to read classics at Jesus College, Oxford. He achieved a great deal as a young man, identifying new archaeological sites while a teenager. He was elected to the Rome Scholarship for Classical Studies in 1959. From 1959 until 1962 Jones took part in the South Etruria Survey directed by John Bryan Ward-Perkins of the British School at Rome. After receiving his D.Phil from Oxford, Jones continued to work in Italy, analyzing aerial photographs of Apulia, leading to important discoveries at Foggia. In 1964 he took an appointment at the University of Manchester.

Jones also worked in North Africa and was very much involved in rescue archaeology. Throughout his career Jones was attracted to frontier areas, an interest reflected in his work. Among his students were Nicholas Higham and David Mattingly.

elected works

#with P.R. Lewis "The Roman gold mines at Dolancothi" (1971).
# with Nicholas Higham. "The Carvetii" (1985).
#"Apulia" (1987).
#with David Mattingly. "An atlas of Roman Britain" (1990).
#with John Bryan Ward-Perkins "et al" "The Severan buildings of Lepcis Magna : an architectural survey" (1993).
#"Hadrian's Wall from the air" (2001).
#"Archaeology of the Roman Empire: a tribute to the life and works of Professor Barri Jones" (2001).

References

* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,281591,00.html Obituary] by Anthony Birley Friday July 23, 1999 in "The Guardian"