Professor Jim Crow

Jim Crow’s research interests focus on Roman Frontier Studies and Byzantine Archaeology. A graduate of Birmingham and Newcastle Universities, he directed the archaeological excavations on Hadrian’s Wall for the National Trust for most of the 1980s and has run field projects in Northumberland at High Rochester and Harbottle. He has served on the Hadrian’s Wall management plan committee for many years, and currently performs an advisory role on Hadrian's Wall and the Cheviots. Jim published two fantastic books for National Trust: “Housesteads: A Fort and Garrison” and “Hadrian’s Wall: An Historic Landscape”. He is one of the leading World Experts on Hadrian’s Wall and Roman frontiers in general.

Jim has also worked in Turkey and Greece for over twenty years and recently completed a major research project on the Water Supply of Byzantine Constantinople and the city’s hinterland fortification system ‘the Anastasian Wall’. He has led many study tours to Istanbul for Peter Sommer Travels, and has lectured on many of our gulet cruises in Lycia. Jim is a marvellous enthusiast and stimulating travelling companion.