| Intro | British historian and archaeologist |
| A.K.A. | Francis John Haverfield |
| Was |
Anthropologist Archaeologist Historian Educator |
| From | United Kingdom |
| Type |
Academia Social science |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 8 November 1860 |
| Death |
1 October 1919 (aged 58 years) |
| Star sign | Scorpio |
Francis John Haverfield (8 November 1860 at Shipston-on-Stour – 1 October 1919) was a British historian and archaeologist.
Education
Educated at Winchester College and the University of Oxford, he also worked under Theodor Mommsen. In 1907 he became Camden Professor of Ancient History at Oxford.
Work
Haverfield was the first to undertake a scientific study of Roman Britain and he is considered by some to be the first theorist to tackle the issue of the Romanization of the Roman Empire. Some consider him the innovator of the discipline of Romano-British archaeology. His works include The Romanization of Roman Britain (1905) (which originated as a lecture to the British Academy and for which he is best known), Ancient Town Planning (1913), and The Roman Occupation of Britain (1924), many monographs, and the authoritative chapters he contributed to the Victoria History of the Counties of England. He excavated the Roman fort at Hardknott, the site of ancient Mediobogdum in Cumbria. He collected and published known Latin inscriptions in Britain.
Haverfield is credited as playing a prominent role in creation of both the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies and the British School at Rome.
Students
Among his students was the archaeologist and topographer Thomas Ashby (1874–1931), the first scholar and third director of the British School at Rome, the Oxford historian, archaeologist, and philosopher R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943) as well as archaeologist and anthropologist John Garstang (1876-1956)