Philippa Walton

As Research Fellow until September 2016, Dr Philippa Walton was responsible for collating data for the project, managing collaborations and undertaking a range of research on Roman hoarding. Her research, which focuses on the material culture of the Roman world, encompasses many of the themes which the Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project aims to address. For example, she is particularly interested in the function of Roman coinage both inside and outside the Empire, as well as the relationship between coinage, ritual and religion. Her PhD thesis, published as a Moneta monograph in 2012 (Rethinking Roman Britain: Coinage and Archaeology), concentrated on the potential of numismatic evidence provided by the Portable Antiquities Scheme as a resource for understanding the history and archaeology of Roman Britain. It is for this research and for her wider contribution to Romano-British Numismatics that she won the Blunt Prize awarded by the British Numismatic Society in 2014.