Miles Russell

Dr Miles Russell is a senior lecturer in prehistoric and Roman archaeology at Bournemouth University. He has worked as a field officer and project manager for the UCL Field Archaeology Unit, the Oxford Archaeological Unit and Bournemouth Archaeology on sites across Southern England, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Germany, Sicily and Russia. He is co-director of the Durotriges Project and REGNVM: the First Kingdom, investigating the transition from the Iron Age to Roman period in SW and SE Britain.

He is the author of fifteen books, including Arthur and the Kings of Britain, The Piltdown Man Hoax: Case Closed, UnRoman Britain: Exposing the Great Myth of Britannia (with Stuart Laycock), Hillforts and the Durotriges (with Dave Stewart), Bloodline: the Celtic Kings of Roman Britain, Roman Sussex, Prehistoric Sussex, Bignor Roman Villa (with David Rudling), Monuments of the British Neolithic: the Roots of Architecture, Flint Mines in Neolithic Britain, Rough Quarries Rocks and Hills, Piltdown Man: the Secret Life of Charles Dawson, Digging Holes in Popular Culture: Archaeology and Science Fiction, and numerous other papers and journal articles.

Miles is a regular contributor to television and radio, his most recent appearances being in Time Team, Timewatch, The Seven Ages of Britain, Museum Discoveries, Gangsters of Science, Mysteries in the Landscape, the One Show, Digging for Britain, History's Greatest Hoaxes, Sacred Wonders of Britain, Operation Stonehenge: what lies beneath, Secrets from the Sky and Underground Britain.

See also @DurotrigesDig and http://archaeospeak.blogspot.com/