Jennifer Price

Jennifer Price FSA
Died	16 May 2019 York, England
Occupation(s)	Academic and archaeologist
Academic background
Alma mater	Cardiff University
Thesis	Roman Glass in Spain
Academic work
Discipline	Classics and archaeology
Sub-discipline	Roman glass
Institutions	British Museum Salisbury Museum Cardiff University University of Leeds Durham University

A. Jennifer Price

Price was from a family of glassmakers in Stourbridge.^[5] She initially attended evening classes in archaeology whilst at secondary school and excavated with Graham Webster in her free time.^[6]

Career

She briefly left archaeology, working for the civil service before qualifying as a barrister in 1963. From 1963 to 1966 she worked on excavations in Italy and Masada, Israel.^[6] Whilst at Masada she learned how to reconstruct and study Roman glass vessels.^[4]

She subsequently gained her bachelor's degree in archaeology from

In 1988, along with her partner Sue Hardman, and the other researcher Stephen Briggs and Peter Wilson, Price published a Festschrift for Mary Kitson Clark, a leading female authority on Roman Yorkshire titled Recent Research in Roman Yorkshire: studies in honour of Mary Kitson Clark (Mrs Derwas Chitty).^[4]

Price conclusively identified a Roman glass shard excavated at

She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 2 March 1978.^[9]

In 2006, to mark her retirement, a two-day conference was held in her honour by the Association for the History of Glass. A 2015 collection of papers, titled Glass of the Roman World was also dedicated to Price.^[10]

Select publications

• Price, J, Wilson, P, Hardman, S., and Briggs, S. (eds) 1988. Recent Research in Roman Yorkshire: studies in honour of Mary Kitson Clark (Mrs Derwas Chitty)
• Price, J. 1998. "The social context of glass production in Roman Britain". In McCray, P. The Prehistory and History of Glassmaking Technology. 331–348.
• Price, J. 2000. "Late Roman glass vessels in Britain, from AD350 to 410 and beyond". In Price, J. Glass in Britain and Ireland, AD350-1100. London: The British Museum. 127: 1-31.
• Price, A., Cool, H. and Cottam, S. 2002. "The glass". In Wilson, P. R. Cataractonium: Roman Catterick and its hinterland. Excavations and research 1958-1997. York: English Heritage. CBA Research Report 128: 207–259.
• Price, J. 2003. "Broken bottles and quartz-sand: glass production in Yorkshire and the North in the Roman period". In Wilson, P. R. and Price, J. Aspects of industry in Roman Yorkshire and the North. Oxford: Oxbow. 81–93.
• Price, J. 2004. "Romano-British and early post-Roman glass vessels". Trethurgy excavations at Trethurgy Round, St Austell community and status in Roman and post-Roman Cornwall. H Quinnell Cornwall: Cornwall County Council. 85–92.
• MacMahon, A. and Price, J. 2005. "Glass-working and Glassworkers in Cities and Towns". In MacMahon, A. and Price, J., Roman Working Lives and Urban Living. Oxford:
  Oxbow Books
  . 167–190.
• Price, J. 2012. "Urban and maritime glass assemblages in the western and eastern Mediterranean" (review article). Antiquity 84. 254–257.
• Price, J. 2014. "Personal possessions or traded goods? Finds of decorated mould-blown glass vessels on Flavian sites in northern Britain" in Collins, R. and McIntosh, F. (eds) Life in the Limes: Studies of the Peoples and Objects of the Roman Frontiers Oxford, Oxbow. 140–151.

References

External links

• Bibliography of Jennifer Price