Professor Chris Gosden

Current Activities

Chris is the Principal Investigator for the ERC funded HORSEPOWER project (see project website here: https://www.horsepowerproject.org/) in collaboration with the British Museum and colleagues at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and, the Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA).

Previously Chris directed the English Landscape and Identities project looking at the history of the English Landscape from 1500 BC to AD 1088 (funded by the ERC), and the European Celtic Art in Context project, exploring Celtic art and its eastern connections (funded by the Leverhulme Trust).  Chris is also finishing a project on the English Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum (funded by the ESRC).

Links

Horsepower Project website

HORSEPOWER: China, Mongolia and the steppe

British Museum project page

European Celtic Art in Context

English Landscapes Project

Hillforts of the Ridgeway

Vale and Ridgeway Project