Valerie Maxfield

Maxfield completed an undergraduate degree in History at the University of Leicester and completed a Phd at Durham University in 1972, at Trevelyan College, supervised by Brian Dobson.[1][2] She studied at the British School at Rome, and was then appointed as a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Exeter.[1] Maxfield retired from the university in 2008, coinciding with Bryony Coles' retirement. To mark their departure, the archaeology department held a conference dedicated to them titled 'From Desert to Wetland'.[3] Valerie Maxfield is currently an emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Exeter.[4]

In 1972 Maxfield excavated the Roman temporary camp at Eskbank, revealing its entrance complex, and in 1975 a series of pits at the camp.[5] She excavated the Roman fort of Camelon, Falkirk from 1975–1977, and discovered a new camp at Lochlands through excavations in 1980–1984.[6][7] Maxfield has worked in the Eastern Desert of Egypt since 1987 and excavated at Mons Porphyrites with David Peacock in the 1990s.[8][9] This led to a grant of £5,595 from the British Academy in 2005 to fund post-excavation work on the project.[10]

Maxfield co-founded the Hadrianic society in 1971 with David Breeze and Brian Dobson and was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1978.[11] Maxfield is a member of the Durham School of Archaeology.[12] She has a longstanding involvement with both the Devon Archaeological Society and the Cornwall Archaeological Society, whose president she was in 2014.[13] She is the current vice-president of the Devon Archaeological Society and edits the society's journal.[14][13]

• V. Maxfield 1972. Excavations at Eskbank Midlothian, 1972. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 141-150.
• V.A. Maxfield. 1981. The Military Decorations of the Roman Army. London: Batsford.
• V.A. Maxfield. 1986. Pre-Flavian Forts and their Garrisons. Britannia 17: 59-72.
• V. Maxfield. 1989. The Saxon Shore: A Handbook. Exeter: Exeter University Press.
• Dobson, B. and Maxfield, V. 1995. Inscriptions of Roman Britain. London: London Association of Classical Teachers
• V.A. Maxfield, D. Peacock. 2001. The Roman Imperial Quarries: Survey and Excavation at Mons Porphyrites 1994-1998 Volume 2. London: Egypt Exploration Society.
• V.A. Maxfield. 2001. Stone quarrying in the Eastern Desert with particular reference to Mons Claudianus and Mons Porphyrites. In D. Mattingly and J. Salmon. Economies beyond Agriculture in the Classical World.
• V.A. Maxfield and D. Peacock. 2001. Survey and Excavation. Mons Claudianus 1987-1993 II: Excavations part 1. Cairo: Institute francais d'archeologie orientale
• V.A. Maxfield and M.J. Dobson (eds). 2003. Roman Frontier Studies. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
• V.A. Maxfield. 2003. Ostraca and the Roman army in the Eastern desert. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 46: 153-173.