Dr Andrew Lamb (PhD, MSc, BSc (Hons), FSA Scot)

Teaching Fellow in Iron Age and Theoretical Archaeology

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School of History, Classics and Archaeology, 00M.22 | William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School

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  • Monday to Wednesday 10:00 to 15:30.

    Please inquire via email about availability.

Biography

Background

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Teaching Fellow

Biography

I have studied at Queen's University Belfast, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Leicester. I was awarded my PhD in 2019, and examined Iron Age mortuary practices in southern England between the 5th century BC and the first decades of the Roman conquest in the 1st century AD. On the basis of my doctoral research I received an honorable commendation in the 2020 Prix européen d’archéologie Joseph Déchelette. Between 2021 and 2022 I worked for the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege im Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart, as a researcher on the European Union's Danube Archaeological eLandscapes project. In spring of 2025 I taught as a Visiting Professor at the University of Hradec Kralové.

 

My primary research interests include mortuary practices, ritual, La Tène art and links between Iron Age Ireland, Britain and the Continent. I have previously excavated in the UK, France, Germany, Morocco and Ukraine.

 

Useful Links

Academia: https://edinburgh.academia.edu/AndrewLamb

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew-Lamb-13

Undergraduate teaching

The Archaeology of Iron Age Europe (ARCA 10093)

Theoretical Archaeology (ARCA 10064)

Postgraduate teaching

The Archaeology of ‘Celtic’ Europe (PGHC11508)

Homo migrans (Ancient Worlds) (PGHC11611)

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

No

Past PhD students supervised

Nicholas Katz (2023) - Martial Identities in the Lower Rhine region (MSc).

Research summary

Places: 

  • Britain & Ireland
  • Europe

Themes: 

  • Culture
  • Gender
  • Material Culture
  • Migration
  • Religion

Periods: 

  • Prehistory

Research interests

Iron Age mortuary practices

Links and contacts between Iron Age Ireland, Britain and Continental Europe

Ritual as a tool for societal change and control

La Tène art

Current research interests

The evidence for contacts between Ireland, Britain and central Europe during the Iron Age. Medical practices in Iron Age Europe. Iron Age ring-headed pins in Britain and Ireland (in collaboration with Dr Katharina Becker, University College Cork).

Past research interests

Crises in Iron Age Britain. The Deal inhumations of Iron Age Kent. Later Iron Age inhumation traditions in south-west Britain and Brittany. Warfare in Iron Age Ireland and Britain.

Inall, Y. and Lamb, A.W. 2025. Warfare and the ways of warriors in Iron Age Ireland and Britain. In: J. Genechesi, L. Pernet, S. Barrier, M. Demierre, D. Genequand and T. Luginbühl (eds). La guerre et son cortège. Réflexions sur les conflits et leur impact sur les cultures des âges du Fer, Actes du XLVIIe colloque international de l’AFEAF, Lausanne, 2023, 393-411. Paris (AFEAF 7).

Lamb, A.W. 2024. Iron Age Mortuary Practices in Southern England 550 BC to AD 70: A Study of Ritual Frameworks within an Insular and Near-Continental Context. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports 668

Ellis-Haken, R. and Lamb, A.W. 2024. An Iron Age anthropoid sword pommel and guard from Belton,  North Lincolnshire: A potential depiction of a bearded or female figure on a La Tène weapon. Études Celtiques 49(1), 9-30

Lamb, A.W. 2024. Chronological challenges in Iron Age Ireland and Britain: A case study of the application of the Universal Chronology to Late Iron Age communities in south-eastern England. In: A. Weidinger and J. Leskovar (eds).Interpretierte Eisenzeiten. Fallstudien, Methoden, Theorie. Tagungsbeiträge der 10. Linzer Gespräche zur interpretativen Eisenzeitarchäologie, 63-78. Linz: Studien zur Kulturgeschichte von Oberösterreich

Lamb, A.W. 2023. The later Iron Age inhumation burials of South-West Britain and Armorica and their potential relationship. Cornish Archaeology 62, 69-97

Lamb, A.W. 2023. An Iron Age dagger hilt in the La Tène plastic style from Clipstone, Nottinghamshire. Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire 127, 47-6

Lamb, A.W. and Schönfelder, M. 2022. Spearbutts for horse bits: a new interpretation for certain bronze fittings from the Irish Iron Age. Journal of Irish Archaeology 31, 69-80

Lamb, A.W. 2022. Les fleuves et la société durant l’âge du Fer en Ulster. In B. Bonaventure and S. Carrara (eds). Axes fluviaux et territoires à l'âge du Fer en Europe, 293-7. Collection AFEAF 4. Paris: AFEAF

Lamb, A.W. 2022. Iron Age Mortuary Practices in Britain: An assessment of current trends and their characteristics within contemporary north-western European traditions. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 87, 227-60

Lamb, A.W. 2021-2022. Ein britischer Riemenverteiler aus Ober-Olm, Lkr. Mainz-Bingen. Berichte zur Archäologie in Rheinhessen und Umgebung 14, 18-25

Lamb, A.W. 2021. An Iron Age scabbard chape from Liss, Hampshire: A Northern artefact from a Southern find-spot. Hampshire Studies 76, 66-72

Lamb, A.W. 2021. Dressing the Dead: Dress fittings in the Later pre-Roman British Iron Age. In S. Adroit, A. Bertraud, T. Le Dreff, C. Moulin, and T. Poigt (eds). Représenter la protohistoire / Se représenter à la protohistoire – Representations of Protohistory / Self-representations in Protohistory. Actes des IV e rencontres doctorales de l ̇ École européenne de protohistoire de Bibracte (12-13 mars 2018), 107-113. Glux-en-Glenne: Bibracte

Lamb, A.W. 2020. The Deal-type inhumations of Kent: Defining an Iron Age mortuary group in light of new discoveries. Archaeologia Cantiana 141, 98-124

Lamb, A.W. 2020. An Iron Age torc from Burnley, Lancashire. Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society 112, 182-201

Ellis, R.L., Lamb, A.W. 2019. The Breckland Beast: An Iron Age zoomorphic terminal with implications for our understanding of artistic influences during the Iron Age in Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology 48, 165-173

Lamb, A.W. 2019. La Tène anthropoid art in Britain: Changes in style and people. Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 49(1), 83-94

Lamb, A.W. 2019. The prehistoric pedigree of Romano-British bucket escutcheons: the view from Mountsorrel. Later Prehistoric Finds Group Newsletter 13, 7-11

Lamb, A.W. 2018. The Belgae of Gaul and Britain: Revisiting cross-Channel contacts in the Later Iron Age. In P. Pavúk, V. Klontza-Jaklová and A. Harding (eds). ΕΥΔΑΙΜΩΝ. Studies in Honour of Jan Bouzek, 335-357. Prague: The Faculty of Arts, Charles University

Lamb, A.W. 2018. Seated burials of the La Tène Iron Age. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 37(4), 429-442

Lamb, A.W. 2018. The curious case of the Iceni and their relationship with Rome. In M.A. Janković & V.D. Mihajlović (eds), Reflections of Roman Imperialisms, 106-127. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Mattingly, D., Bokbot, Y., Sterry, M., Cuénod, A., Fenwick, C., Gatto, M.C., Ray, N., Rayne, L., Janin, K.,  Lamb, A.W., Mugnai, N. and Nikolaus, J. 2018. Long-term History in a Moroccan Oasis Zone: The Middle Draa Project 2015. Journal of African Archaeology 15, 1-32

Lamb, A.W. 2016. The rise of the individual in Late Iron Age southern Britain and beyond. Chronika 6, 26-40

Advisory Board Member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Eisenzeit.

Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Leicester.

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

 

Former External Affiliations:

Vice Chair of the Later Prehistoric Finds Group.

Visiting Professor at the University of Hradec Králové.

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