Barri Jones

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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, Jones studied classics at Jesus College, Oxford. He achieved a great deal as a young man, identifying new archaeological sites while a teenager. 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.

[edit] Selected 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).