Ralph Jackson
Curator of Romano-British Collections
Roman Britain
Department: Prehistory and
Europe
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8580
Email: rjackson @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Ralph Jackson is Curator of the Romano-British
collections and Head of Roman Britain and Medieval Europe. He has
directed excavations on Roman military and civilian sites in
Britain and is currently researching a newly-discovered
Romano-British temple treasure and co-ordinating fieldwork at the
site.
He specializes in Roman metalwork and the
archaeology of ancient medicine and is just completing a book on
objects of body care in Roman Britain. His main medical interests
are in ancient surgery, surgical practitioners and their
instrumentation.
Major publication projects in progress include
books on Roman Britain and on Greek and Roman surgery, a catalogue
of the British Museum’s medical collections and, with Dr. Jacopo
Ortalli, the publication of the remarkable medical assemblage from
the ‘House of the Surgeon’ at Rimini.
Current British Museum projects
The ‘near Baldock’ hoard of Roman temple
treasure and its archaeological context
Cosmetic sets: an illustrated catalogue and
discussion of a type unique to late Iron Age and Roman
Britain
Previous British Museum projects
Lead curator for the exhibition ‘Gladiators and Caesars: the
Power of Spectacle in Ancient Rome’
External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
Member of Council, Society for the Promotion
of Roman Studies
Trustee of the Roman Research Trust
Member of Faculty of Archaeology, History
& Letters, British School at Rome
External Moderator for Birkbeck College,
Faculty of Continuing Education
Advisory Board member for the journal
Medicina nei Secoli
Publications
Most recent publications
R. Jackson, ‘Imagining health-care in Roman London’ in J. Clark,
J. Cotton, J. Hall, R. Sherris and H. Swain (eds.)
Londinium and beyond: essays for Harvey Sheldon CBA Research
Report (forthcoming)
R. Jackson, ‘The Senuna treasure and shrine at Ashwell
(Hertfordshire)’ in A. King and R. Häussler (eds.) Continuity
and Innovation in the Roman West, Journal of Roman Archaeology
Supplementary Series (forthcoming)
R. Jackson, ‘Colchester, cosmetic sets and context’ in P.
Ottaway (ed.) A victory celebration: papers on the archaeology
of Colchester and late Iron Age – Roman Britain presented to Philip
Crummy (Colchester, 2006).
R. Jackson, ‘Roman bound captives: symbols of slavery?’, in N.
Crummy (ed.) Image, Craft and the Classical World
(Monographies Instrumentum 29, Éditions Monique Mergoil, Montagnac,
2005), pp. 143-56
R. Jackson, ‘Circumcision, de-circumcision and self-image:
Celsus’s ‘operations on the penis’’, in A. Hopkins and M. Wyke
(eds.) Roman Bodies: Antiquity to the eighteenth century
(British School at Rome, London, 2005), pp. 23-32