Miss Penny Copeland
Research Fellow in Archaeology
Miss Penny Copeland is a Research Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Southampton.
I have come to archaeology from a career as a General Practice Chartered Surveyor. Since becoming an archaeologist I have acquired extensive archaeological experience, excavating on sites in England, Scotland, Denmark, Egypt and Italy. I was involved over many years with the Als Landscape Project in Southern Denmark, and the Quseir al-Qadim/Myos Hormos project in Egypt carrying out excavation and finds processing on both sites. Since 2006 I have been particularly involved in the Portus Project in Rome, Italy, and the wider PortusLimen Project studying Ports throughout the Mediterranean.
I have continued to study buildings from within archaeology and researched the response of historic buildings to climate change as part of the AHRC funded Parnassus Project, a multi-disciplinary, multi-institution project with the Universities of UCL and Bristol. This included the Lived Experience in the Later Middle Ages project work at Bodiam Castle which included a new survey of the interior. I also work as a historic building consultant/ consultant archaeologist for McCurdy & Co., timber frame specialists.
I have worked as an archaeological illustrator throughout my career as an archaeologist, specialising in use of computer graphics packages. Illustrations include pottery from Nevis to India, native Canadian artefacts, Fijian shorelines, Caribbean excavations, animal and human bone, metalwork, basketry, etc. etc.