Mr Timothy Sly MSc, BA

Senior Teaching Fellow, Senior Tutor for Archaeology (Undergraduate),Head of Fieldwork (Undergraduate)

Mr Timothy Sly is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Southampton.

After completing a B.A. in Ancient History and Archaeology (University of Wales) I worked in commercial archaeology (York Archaeological Trust and Museum of London), before completing an M.Sc. in Archaeological Computing (University of Southampton).  Before my appointment as a teaching fellow I worked at the University of Southampton as a research assistant, technician and experimental officer.

My main skills are in archaeological computing and surveying and how these techniques can be applied to archaeological sites, landscapes and questions.  I have been fortunate to work on a variety of projects as an archaeological surveyor in the UK, Europe (including fieldwork as part of the Roman Towns in the Tiber Valley project) and beyond.  I am a co-director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded Noviodunum Archaeological Project (NAP), along with Dr Kris Lockyear (University College London) and Dr Adrian Popescu (University of Cambridge).  Noviodunum is situated on the river Danube in Romania, near Isaccea, Tulcea; it lies on the last easy crossing point of the river, before it starts to braid to form the Danube delta.  This project involved looking at the Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and later elements of the site, using a variety of different techniques: field survey, geophysics and excavation.  The fieldwork element has been completed (2000 – 2010) and the project is currently being written up.