Birley (right, front) during excavations at Vindolanda in 2012
Andrew Robin Birley (born 28 October 1974) is a British archaeologist and the Director of Excavations on the site of Vindolanda.[1][2][3] He is the son of Robin Birley and Patricia Birley and grandson of Eric Birley, who founded the department of Archaeology at Durham University, and of Margaret "Peggy" Birley, and is married to Barbara Birley, also an archaeologist and the Curator of the Vindolanda Trust.[4][5] He graduated from the University of Leicester in the summer of 1996 and has been working on the site for 18 years, ten of which have been in full-time employment by the Vindolanda Trust.
Birley is responsible for the day-to-day running of the excavations and the welfare of the volunteers while on the site. He began his PhD in 2004 and completed it in 2010. His doctoral thesis was titled "The nature and significance of extramural settlement at Vindolanda and other selected sites on the Northern Frontier of Roman Britain".[6] Birley has appeared in a number of television programmes about Roman Britain and archaeology for the BBC, the History Channel, National Geographic and the Discovery Channel.
Published works include relevant contributions to the Vindolanda Excavation Reports from 1997 to 2009, the 'Eyeopener' series, 'Following the Eagle', as well as a fascicule on Roman locks and keys from the site of Vindolanda.
He has also appeared on the British TV series Digging for Britain and How the Celts Saved Britain.[citation needed]
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^Henderson, Tony (31 August 2018). "Vindolanda Trust announce death of much loved founder Dr Robin Birley". ChronicleLive. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
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^Birley, Andrew Robin (2010). "The nature and significance of extramural settlement at Vindolanda and other selected sites on the Northern Frontier of Roman Britain". E-Thesis Online Service. The British Library. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
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