Sheppard Frere

Sheppard Sunderland Frere ( born August 23, 1916) is a British provincial Roman archaeologist.

Frere studied until 1938 at Magdalene College, Cambridge. 1938 to 1940 he was a teacher at Epsom College, from 1940 to 1945 he served in the National Fire Service, from 1945 to 1954 he was again a teacher at Lancing College. In 1954 he was Lecturer in Archaeology at Manchester University, 1955, Reader in 1963 Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London. From 1966 to 1988 he was Professor of Archaeology of the Roman Empire at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College.

From 1955 to 1961 he dug in Verulamium.

Publications (selection)

See " A bibliography of the published works of Sheppard Frere in: . Rome and her Northern Provinces Papers presented to Sheppard Frere '' Gloucester 1983, pp. 4-12. ..

• Britannia. A history of Roman Britain, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967 Revised edition. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London; Boston 1978. ISBN 0-7100-8916-3
• 3rd ed, extensively rev. Routledge & Kegan Paul London; New York 1987. ISBN 0-7102-1215-1

Commemorative

• Rome and her Northern Provinces. Papers presented to Sheppard Frere in honor of his retirement from the Chair of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, University of Oxford, 1983, ed. by Brian Hartley and John Wacher. Sutton, Gloucester 1983. ISBN 0-86299-046-7
• Romanitas. Essays on Roman archeology, published in honor of Sheppard Frere on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. by R. J. A. Wilson. Oxbow, Oxford 2006, ISBN 1-84217-248-4. ; ISBN 978-1-84217-248-3