Trustee Chris Blair-Myers receives the inaugural Britannia Award

Congratulations are in order for Society Trustee Chris Blair-Myers for receiving the inaugural Britannia Award in recognition of extraordinary voluntary service to Roman archaeology in Britain.

Dr Lacey Wallace (University of Lincoln) of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies presented the inaugural Britannia Award at the Reconnecting Roman Britain conference held at the University of Newcastle in November.

The award was made to recognise the voluntary work undertaken for the KAS, for fieldwork excavation mapping and recording, but primarily for the continuing identification of crop marks in Kent’s aerial photography, which has identified several previously unrecorded Roman structures.

These finds and interpreted LIDAR data, geophysical surveys, excavation plans, and historical mapping have been developed as a Geographical Information System, now viewable on the Society website map page. The project started in 2013 and continues with regular updates to the map, which remains a work in progress.