Dr Richard Tabor

PhD (Birmingham) 1998

Lectures on sampling strategies and techniques for landscape survey and the practice and interpretation of geophysical survey, in particular through the integration of geographical information systems (GIS).

Research Fellow working full time on the South Cadbury Environs Project (http://www.southcadbury.org.uk), a landscape survey around Cadbury Castle, south east Somerset, of which he is a founding co-director. The chronological range of the survey is from the Mesolithic to Saxon periods. The project is notable for its intensive use of geophysical survey integrated with ploughzone research, as well as several important excavations targeting prehistoric activity. His post is funded the Arts and Humanities Research Board until March 2008. During this four year period the Department of Archaeology will be collaborating with a new joint sponsor, the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. The research will focus in particular on the span from 1000 BC to AD 100.

Research interests

The relationship between landscape survey techniques and strategies and their subsequent narratives. The Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age in south west Britain.

Bibliography

Books
Tabor, R. 2004. Regional Perspectives in Archaeology: from sampling to narrative. Oxford: BAR SI1203.

Tabor, R. (due 2008). Cadbury Castle in its landscape. Stroud: Tempus.

International journals
Tabor, R. (with J. Coles, P. Leach, S. Minnitt & A. Wilson). 1999. A Later Bronze Age shield from South Cadbury, Somerset, England. Antiquity 73: 33-48.

Tabor, R. & P. Johnson. 2000. Sigwells, Somerset, England: regional application and interpretation of geophysical survey. Antiquity 74: 319-25.

Local journals and anthologies
Tabor, R. 2000. Cadbury Castle: focusing the landscape. In Webster, C. (ed.). Somerset Archaeology: Papers to mark 150 years of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society. Somerset County Council, 25-30.

Tabor, R. & P. Johnson. 2002. Sigwells, Charlton Horethorne: the identification, interpretation and testing of Bronze Age to early medieval landscapes by geophysical survey and excavation. Proceeedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society 144: 1-24.

Books for limited circulation
Tabor, R. (ed.). 2002. South Cadbury Environs Project interim fieldwork report, 1998-2001. University of Bristol.

Tabor, R. (ed.). 2004. South Cadbury Environs Project interim fieldwork report, 2002-03. University of Bristol.