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Dr. Jodie Lewis

Associate Professor

Area
School of Archaeological & Forensic Sci
Faculty of Life Sciences
E-mail
j.lewis5@bradford.ac.uk
Phone
+441274234628
Dr. Jodie Lewis
1 research project
33 publications
1 award

Biography

Jodie joined the University of Bradford in 2022. She completed her undergraduate degree, Masters and PhD at the University of Bristol and has lectured at the Universities of Bangor and Worcester.
Jodie is a prehistorian with particular interests in the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Ages.  She has carried out numerous large fieldwork projects focusing on these periods but she is also engaged in multi-period landscape studies.  Jodie is particularly interested in karst landscape features, such as caves, gorges and sinkholes, and how past communities interacted with these and other natural features such as spring issues/sinks and mineral deposits. As part of this, she also investigates the links between such places and Neolithic and Bronze Age ceremonial and funerary monuments.

Research

Jodie's research focuses on the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age periods in western Britain, with a particular emphasis upon landscape perception, funerary practice and ritual behaviour. She has been running field projects since 1997, which have included excavations at Mesolithic sites; Neolithic causewayed enclosures, standing stones, henges and timber and stone circles; Bronze Age barrows and a wetland Late Bronze Age metalwork hoard. Recently, her interests in multi-period landscape studies have seen her carry out excavations at a Romano-British shrine; a Medieval farmstead; a post-Medieval settlement complex and elements of a Capability Brown designed landscape.   

Currently, Jodie is running the Priddy Environs Project. The parish of Priddy, in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, contains a wealth of archaeological sites ranging from earlier prehistory to the 20th century, including funerary and ritual sites, settlements, agricultural structures and the remains of extractive activities.  However, our understanding of the typology, development and chronology of these sites, the relationships between them and their associated material culture is poor, limited by the lack of modern excavation. As a result, many of the archaeological sites are of uncertain date and function, making it difficult to generate interpretations.  These interpretations are not only of academic value but can also be used to enhance community engagement with their local heritage and aid management and conservation strategies. The Priddy Environs Project is a long-term archaeological research initiative focused on understanding and enhancing knowledge of this important historic environment.

Research projects

Teaching

The Archaeology and Heritage of Britain
Prehistoric Britain
Archaeological Theory
Archaeological Fieldwork

Professional activities

  • Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1 January 2015)

  • Prehistoric Society, (11 June 2018)
  • Somerset Archaeological & Natural History Society Heritage Grants Committee, (1 August 2013)

  • University of Bristol - BA (Hons)
  • University of Bristol - PhD (funded)
  • University of Bristol - MA (funded)

  • University of Worcester - Principal Lecturer in Archaeology & Heritage (1 August 2002)
  • University of the West of England - Visiting Lecturer in Historic Environment/Heritage Studies (1 September 2000)
  • Bangor University - Lecturer in Archaeology (1 September 1999)
  • University of Bristol - P/T Tutor for MA Landscape Archaeology (1 October 1996)

  • External Examiner Cultural Heritage Institute, Royal Agricultural University: MSc Archaeological and Heritage Practice, MSc Historic Environment Management, MSc Conservation and Management of Historic Buildings, MBA Cultural Heritage Leadership and MSc Historical Archaeology (15 March 2021)
  • External Examiner University of Manchester: European Prehistory Undergraduate Programme (1 September 2018)
  • External Examiner University of Chester: Undergraduate degrees in Archaeology, History and Heritage Management (with Manx Studies programme) (1 September 2013)
  • External Examiner University of Oxford: Undergraduate Diploma and Advanced Diploma in British Archaeology (1 September 2010)

Publications

  • The Archaeology of Mendip: 500,000 years of Continuity and Change.

    Lewis, Jodie (ed) (2011) Oxbow Books/Heritage Marketing and Publications.

  • Monuments, Ritual and Regionality: The Neolithic of Northern Somerset

    Lewis, Jodie (2005) BAR/Archaeopress.

  • Between the Channel and the Chalk: A Regional Perspective on Grooved Ware and Beaker Pottery from the Mendip Hills, Somerset

    Lewis; J; Mullin; D (2012) Recent Archaeological Work in South-Western Britain. Papers in honour of Henrietta Quinnell. British Archaeological Reports.

  • West of Wessex, but only just: round barrow construction on the Mendip Hills, Somerset

    Lewis, J; Mullin, D (2012) Reflections on the Past: essays in honour of Frances Lynch. Cambrian Archaeological Association.

  • Introduction

    Lewis, Jodie (2011) The Archaeology of Mendip: 500,000 years of continuity and change. Oxbow Books/Heritage Marketing and Publications.

  • Borders in a Limestone Landscape: Neolithic Cave Use in the Mendip Hills, SW England

    Lewis, J (2011) Places In Between: The Archaeology of Social, Cultural and Geographical Borders and Borderlands. Oxbow.

  • On Top of the World: The Use of the Mendip Plateau during the Mesolithic and Neolithic

    Lewis, Jodie (2011) The Archaeology of Mendip: 500,000 years of continuity and change. Oxbow Books/Heritage Marketing and Publications.

  • The creation of round barrows on the Mendip Hills, Somerset

    Lewis, Jodie (2007) Beyond the Grave: New Perspectives on Barrows. Oxbow Books.

  • Experiencing the Prehistoric Landscape of Somerset

    Lewis, Jodie (2007) People and Places: essays in Honour of Mick Aston. Oxbow Books.

  • Tufa Deposits and Archaeology in the Mendip area, Somerset

    Davies, P., Haslett, S., Lewis, J. and Reeves, E. (2006) Quaternary of Somerset. Quaternary Research Association.

  • Neolithic and Bronze Age Funerary and Ritual Practices in Wales, 3600-1200 BC

    Lewis, Jodie (2019) Prehistoric Society.

  • The Historic Landscape of the Mendip Hills

    Lewis, Jodie (2015) The Prehistoric Society.

  • Cadbury Castle. The hillfort and landscapes

    Lewis, Jodie (2010) Journal of Landscape History.

  • Places of Special Virtue

    Lewis, Jodie (2005) Journal of Landscape History.

  • Foreword in: Davies, M. Of Mounds and Men: Prehistoric Barrows of the Frome Area

    Lewis, Jodie (2020) Frome Society for Local Study.

  • Foreword in Williams, H., Wills-Eve, B. and Osborne, J. (eds.) The Public Archaeology of Death

    Lewis, Jodie (2019) Equinox Publishing Ltd.

  • Filling the Gaps: New Research on the Mendip Hills, Somerset

    Lewis, Jodie; Mullin, David; Johnson, Neal (2018) PAST: The Newsletter of the Prehistoric Society.

  • Dating the Priddy Circles, Somerset

    Lewis, Jodie; Mullin, David (2010) PAST: The Newsletter of the Prehistoric Society.

  • A Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic Site at Langley’s Lane, Near Midsomer Norton, Somerset

    Lewis, J; Davies, P (2005) PAST: The Newsletter of the Prehistoric Society.

  • Upwards at 45 Degrees: The Use of Vertical Caves During the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age on Mendip, Somerset

    Lewis, Jodie (2000) Cave Archaeology and Palaeontology Research Archive . 2

  • Excavations at Yarborough and Knoll Hill Farm standing stones, North Somerset

    Mullin, D; Lewis, J; Taylor, H (2022) Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society. 164

  • Crude and Primitive? Rethinking the dating and construction of dug-out church chests in Britain

    Rachel Sycamore and Jodie Lewis (2022) Church Archaeology. 22

  • Mesolithic cave use in south western Britain: from dynamic cosmologies to folk taxonomies

    Rosen, C; Lewis, J (2021) Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society. 28

  • Making a Significant Place: Excavations at the Late Mesolithic Site of Langley’s Lane, Midsomer Norton, Bath and North-East Somerset

    Lewis, Jodie; Rosen, Caroline; Booth, Rona; Davies, P; Allen, M; Law, M (2019) Archaeological Journal. 176

  • Excavations at a Cropmark Henge near Bredon, Worcestershire.

    Lewis, Jodie; Mullin, David (2016) 25

  • Where Water Wells Up From the Earth: Excavations at the Findspot of the Late Bronze Age Broadward Hoard, Shropshire.

    Bradley, R; Lewis, Jodie; Mullin, David; Branch, N (2015) Antiquaries Journal. 95

  • ) ...An Assemblage of Ponderous Stones: Recent Archaeological Fieldwork at Stanton Drew Stone Circles

    Lewis, Jodie; Mullin, David (2013) Archaeological Journal. 169

  • New Excavations at Priddy Circle 1, Mendip Hills, Somerset

    Lewis, J; Mullin, D (2011) Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society. 25

  • The long barrows and long mounds of West Mendip

    Lewis, Jodie (2009) Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society. 24

  • Excavations east of Blackmoor, Charterhouse, Mendip Hills, Somerset

    Lewis, J (2008) Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society. 24

  • Results of Geophysical Surveys at Two Barrow Sites in Cheddar and Priddy Parishes, Mendip.

    Lewis, Jodie (2004) Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society. 23

  • The Middle Down Drove Project

    Lewis, Jodie; Mullin, David (2001) Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society. 22

  • The Everton Flint Collection in Wells Museum.

    Lewis, Jodie (1999) Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society. 21