Why should I choose Southampton?

Because Southampton is one of the largest archaeology departments in the country we are able to offer a range of different opportunities and the best facilities. We can cover a very wide range of courses and options, giving you the freedom to build your own degree using the flexibility of Southampton’s modular system. As a large department of international standing we also have outstanding library, computing and laboratory facilities. The city of Southampton and its surrounding area provide an excellent location for study and relaxation.

Outstanding subject choice

Southampton also teaches and researches many different aspects of archaeology which are offered at only few, if any, other British departments.These include:

• archaeological science, such as computing, animal bones, pottery and worked stone
• museum studies, heritage and law
• social approaches to archaeology
• underwater archaeology – we are one of the leading departments in the world

What our students say

"My passion is Maritime Archaeology and as an undergraduate I participated in the Krogen Project in Sweden under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Adams. Here I gained much experience in surveying well preserved post-medieval shipwrecks, which included many different tasks from DSM-measuring, sketching, and underwater-photography, to processing the measured data with computers."