Project Team

Project Lead

Project Consultant

Administration and Research Assistant

Professor Richard Madgwick

Dr Peter Guest

Hector Kelly

Richard Madgwick is a Professor in Archaeological Science, specialising in the scientific analysis of faunal and human remains using macroscopic, microscopic and molecular methods. He has previously been Principal Investigator on the Levehulme Trust-funded 'Feeding the Roman Army in Britain' Project and the AHRC-funded 'FeastNet' project.

Archaeologist and numismatist with over 30 years’ experience as a finds specialist, excavator, researcher, teacher, curator and project manager. Peter specialises in the Roman period and is particularly interested in Britannia and the northwestern provinces, the Roman army and frontiers, as well as Roman coinage and the economy. The excavations at Caerleon were highly successful research, training and engagement projects, that are bringing cutting-edge research to the widest audiences.

A Doctoral Candidate at the University of Cardiff studying post-Roman Britain and Ireland. Specialising in bioarchaeological and isotopic methods of investigating people of the past. On board with the project working as a research and administration assistant to the FRAME project.

Professor Lucy Cramp

Co - Investigator Organic Residue Analysis

Co - Investigator Archaeobotany

Amy Styring is Associate Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Oxford. As an archaeological chemist she advances scientific methods that reveal a direct and detailed picture of everyday life in the past, particularly in relation to food production and consumption practices and their impacts on the environment. She focuses on carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of human and animal bones and charred plant remains recovered from archaeological sites and uses the carbon and nitrogen isotope values of individual amino acids in their proteins to improve predictions of human and animal diet.

Dr Amy Strying

My interdisciplinary research centres on the investigation of ancient patterns of human subsistence, culinary choices and technological practices through the development and application of biomolecular proxies to reconstruct ancient resource use. My most recent research project, funded by a bilateral AHRC-DFG award, involves a major programme of radiocarbon dating and spatio-temporal modelling to investigate the origins and large-scale dynamics of early maritime​ connectivity in the Mediterranean associated with the spread of the so-called ‘Bell Beaker’ phenomenon.

Carmen Esposito (PhD, Queen’s University Belfast, 2021) is a bioarchaeologist whose research explores the Villanovan phenomenon in pre-Roman Italy by combining material culture, osteology and multi-isotope analysis.

She recently completed her MSCA project TULAR at the University of Bologna (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101065320). Previously, she held a Rome Fellowship at the British School at Rome (BSR) and also worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Cardiff University on the FEASTNET project, conducting multi-isotope analysis of animal bones from British Bronze and Iron Age midden sites.

Dr Carmen Esposito

Researcher

Project Partners

Our teams research is aided by many partners from different institutions who are experts in their own regions and fields

Dr Dimitrije Markovic

Serbia

Netherlands

Dr Wouter K. Vos

Austria

Nisa Iduna Kirchengast is a zooarchaeologist specialising in Roman animal husbandry in frontier zones, foodways, butchery practices, and the trade and supply of animal products. Her doctoral research at the University of Vienna examined Roman food supply and distribution systems
in the Danubian provinces in present-day Austria, while her broader work focuses on taphonomy, human–animal interactions, and economic networks.

Dr Nisa Iduna Kirchengast

Wouter has over 30 years of experience in Roman archaeology, spanning fieldwork, academic research, public outreach, and consultancy. Since 2013, he has managed his independent archaeological consultancy (Vos Archeo) alongside his roles in teaching and research at Saxion University of Applied Sciences. His expertise focuses on the Roman military, ancient shipbuilding, and indigenous settlements, particularly along the Dutch Limes at Roman Frontier sites as Woerden, and Valkenburg.

Dimitrije is a research assistant from the Laboratory for Bioarchaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. His research mainly focuses on analysing animal remains to reconstruct the diet and supply systems of the Roman army on the Danube frontier in modern-day Serbia. Additionally, he is actively involved in promoting archaeology and cultural heritage across Serbia and the region through the Neozoik Foundation, which he co-founded.

Dr Dominik Hagmann

Dominik Hagmann is currently an archaeologist and Curator of Roman Archaeology at the University of Continuing Education Krems and a lecturer at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on Roman settlements and landscapes in the middle Danube region, combining interdisciplinary archaeological science, bioarchaeology, and digital methods, including artificial intelligence.

Dr Gunther Karl Kunst

Doing archaeology through animal bones, from later prehistory to the Modern period; preferred are sites with a complicated stratigraphy, and with widespread butchering activity. Bone tools with use wear and rare species are welcome, too.

Dr Maaike Groot

Maaike Groot is a leading expert on Roman archaeozoology, focusing on developments in animal husbandry caused by the incorporation of regions into the Roman Empire. She has carried out both case studies and regional syntheses, and is currently working on the management and mobility of equids in the northwestern Roman Empire.