Peter Addyman Papers on Tunisia.

Field notes, publication material, photographs, small finds, maps and plans pertaining to archaeological fieldwork carried out in Tunisia as part of the Brathay expedition of 1962.

The expedition was directed to the making of a gazetteer of the numerous olive farming settlements in the area of the Roman town of Sufetula, forerunner of the modern Sbeitla. During the expedition "a number of other sites of other periods were found including several of Neolithic dates, and one producing flints of Aterian (Paleolithic) type" (Addyman, 1962).

Most of the material in the collection relates to Sbeitla, although there are some small find fragments present from Ammaedara, Haidra in Tunisia.

The collection also features records which relate to Addyman's report on the 1962 season of fieldwork which was published in the annual report of the Brathay Exploration Group. These include offprints, drafts pages and photographs.

Dr Peter Vincent Addyman C.B.E. "British Archaeology", Number 7, (September, 1995)(born 12 July 1939) is a British archaeologist. Addyman was born in Yorkshire to an engineer and amateur archaeologist. He took up archaeology at school, in his spare time, and read the subject at Cambridge in the company of such luminaries as Colin Renfrew, Martin Biddle and Barry Cunliffe.

Afterwards, he taught at Belfast and Southampton Universities, and was beginning to make his name as an excavator of Anglo-Saxon sites when he founded the York Archaeological Trust at the age of 33. He held the position of was Director of the Trust from 1972 to 2002. He was made CBE in 2000.

Addyman served as Chairman of the York Civic Trust from October 2012 to October 2015 and subsequently as the President (October 2015 - present).

Source: "Interview: Simon Denison talks to Peter Addyman" in "British Archaeology", Number 7, (September, 1995).

The collection has been arranged into five series;

1. Fieldwork Notes

2. The Archaeology of the Sbeitla Area: Interim Report

3. Photographs

4. Small Find Fragments

5. Maps and Plans.

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