Photo: copyright Lorena Hitchens. All rights reserved.
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Photo: copyright Lorena Hitchens. All rights reserved.
I am pursuing a PhD project on Roman dodecahedra, those fascinating and enigmatic artefacts from the northern and western provinces of the late Roman Empire. The culmination of this project is planned to include an exhibit about dodecahedra at the Great North: Hancock museum in Newcastle Upon Tyne, and a monograph publication.
I received a Distinction mark for my MA degree from Newcastle University in Roman Frontier Studies in Archaeology. My dissertation topic documented all the known finds at that time of dodecahedra from Roman Britain (~32 of the ~130 in Europe). I went in-depth with new laboratory analysis of three specific dodecahedra, which I call "the North East 3". These three artefacts are from the eastern half of the Hadrian's Wall corridor, in England: Corbridge, Newcastle, and South Shields.
I presented some of my findings to the Roman Finds Group's Autumn Conference, on 7th October 2022.
I graduated Cum Laude from the University of Utah with a BA in Physical Anthropology, emphasising forensic anthropology, known as osteology or biological anthropology in the UK. I also studied Classics. My foreign language requirement was Latin.