Ballot Archive

23 Oct 2014

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Alan Wilkins

Academic degrees, honours etc.

MA (Cambridge)

Profession or occupation

Retired; formerly Senior Classics Master, Merchant Taylors’ Scool, Crosby

Grounds for election

Assistant director on excavations on Roman military and civilian sites (Burrow in Londsale, Catterick, Norton; field assistant to Ian Richmond at Inchtuthil for 5 seasons. Specialist on Greek and Roman artillery. Publications include: Roman Artillery (Shire 2003); The Vindolanda Horse (with J M C Toynbee) Britannia 13, 245-51; ‘Reconstructing the cheiroballistra’, Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 6 (1995) 5-59; ‘Scorpio and Cheiroballistra’, JRMES 11 (2000) 77-101; ‘The Graeco-Roman stone-throwing catapult’, Timber Framing 65 (2002) 18-19; ‘Roman Artillery Balls from Qasr Ibrim, Egypt’ (with H Barnard and P J Rose), Sudan and Nubia Bulletin 10 (2006) 66-80.

Signatories

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