Dr Alan Lane
Senior Lecturer in Archaeology/ Head of Archaeology & Conservation
Ysgol Hanes, Archaeoleg a Chrefydd
- lanea@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 5627
- 4.14, John Percival Building
Research interests
- Celtic West
- Early medieval settlements
- Pre-Norman Wales
- Pre-Norman Scotland
- Viking Age Britain and Ireland
- Early medieval artefacts
- Hebridean ceramics
Research projects
- Hebridean ceramics
- Early medieval settlements in the Wales
- Llangorse Crannog
- Early medieval artefacts in the Celtic West
Education and qualifications
1970-74 University of Glasgow
1974 MA in Archaeology and Scottish History
1975-78 University College, London
1983 PhD awarded: Dark Age and Viking Age Pottery in the Hebrides
Career overview
1974-75 Archaeology fieldwork for Edinburgh University, Glasgow University, Oxford Archaeology Unit, Clwyd-Powys Trust.
1978-79 Part-time lecturer in Archaeology, University of Glasgow
1979-present Lecturer in Post-Roman Archaeology, Cardiff University
1988 Lecturer scale B in 1988
200? Senior lecturer
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
FSA, FSA Scot.
2019
- Seaman, A. and Lane, A. 2019. Excavation of the Ty'n-y-Coed Earthworks 2011-14: the Dinas Powys 'Southern Banks'. Archaeologia Cambrensis 168, pp. 1-27.
2014
- Lane, A. M. 2014. Wroxeter and the end of Roman Britain. Antiquity 88(340), pp. 501-515. (10.1017/S0003598X00101140)
- Lane, A. M. 2014. Ceramic and cultural change in the Hebrides AD 500-1300. In: Sigurdsson, J. V. and Bolton, T. eds. Celtic-Norse Relationships in the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages 800-1200. The Northern World Brill, pp. 119-149.
2013
- Lane, A. M. 2013. Viking and Late Norse ceramic baking plates in the Hebrides. In: Webster, L. and Reynolds, A. eds. Early Medieval Art and Archaeology in the Northern World: Studies in Honour of James Graham Campbell. The Northern World Vol. 58. Brill, pp. 211-230.
2012
- Lane, A. M. 2012. Pottery. In: Sharples, N. M. ed. A Late Iron Age Farmstead in the Outer Hebrides Excavations at Mound 1, Bornais, South Uist. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Oxford: Oxbow Books
2010
- Lane, A. M. 2010. A Viking-age and Norse pottery in the Hebrides. Presented at: 15th Viking Congress, Cork, Ireland, 18-27 August 2005 Presented at Sheehan, J. and Corrain, D. eds.The Viking Age: Ireland and the West. Proceedings of the 15th Viking Congress, Cork, 2005. Dublin: Four Courts pp. 204-216.
2009
- Lane, A. M. 2009. The end of Roman Britain and the coming of the Saxons: an archaeological context for 'Arthur'?. In: Fulton, H. ed. A Companion to Arthurian Literature. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 15-29.
2007
- Sharples, N. M. 2007. A find of Ringerike art from Bornais in the Outer Hebrides. In: Hines, J., Lane, A. and Redknap, M. eds. Land, Sea and Home. Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs Vol. 20. Leeds: Maney, pp. 255-272.
2005
- Edwards, N.et al. 2005. Early medieval Wales: a framework for archaeological research. Archaeology in Wales 45, pp. 33-46.
- Lane, A. M. 2005. The ceramics from Bornish mound 3. In: Sharples, N. M. ed. A Norse Farmstead in the Outer Hebrides; Excavations at Mound 3, Bornais, South Uist. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 36-38.
2001
- Lane, A. M. and Campbell, E. 2001. Dunadd: an early Dalriadic capital. Cardiff: Cardiff School of History and Archaeology. Available at: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/projArch/dunadd_var_2001/downloads.cfm
1993
- Campbell, E.et al. 1993. Excavations at Longbury Bank, Dyfed,and early medieval settlement in South Wales. Medieval Archaeology 37(1), pp. 15-77.
Undergraduate year one
Undergraduate year two/three
Postgraduate MA
- Post-Roman
- Viking
Projects
Hebridean ceramics
This is an ongoing programme of research aimed at elucidating the chronology, nature and meaning of ceramic use in the Hebrides from the early Iron Age to the medieval period. The project is funded by Cardiff Unversity and other bodies.
Early medieval settlements in the Wales
The archaeology of early medieval period is very poorly understood in much of the Celtic West. Since 1979 I have been working in conjunction with other colleagues in Wales to elucidate the nature of the settlement archaeology in Wales for the period c400-1100. As part of this work some analysis of ecclesiastical sites has been undertaken. The project aims to locate and excavate possible early medieval sites with a view to providing reliable information about the settlement history of Wales. The initial task is to finish publication of the Coed y gaer hillfort. New work has begun on the site of Dinas Powys, Glamorgan.
Llangorse Crannog
The site at Llangorse in Powys is the only crannog known from the British Isles outside Scotland and Ireland. Excavation demonstrated that it dates to the late 9th and early 10th century. This allows it to be identified as a royal site of the kings of Brecon which was destroyed by a Mercian army in 915. The project is funded by the National Museum of Wales and other bodies. The aim of the project is to bring the excavations to full publication including specialist reports on the artefact and in particular the unique carbonised decorated textiles recovered.
Early medieval artefacts in the Celtic West
The study of the Celtic West in the early medieval period has been hampered by poor chronological resolution of the artefact sequences. The aim of this work in conjunction with PhD students and outside collaborators has been to define the artefact sequences in the area and to refine the chronological and cultural information to be drawn from them.