Dr Louisa Campbell

Lecturer in Heritage Materials Science (Archaeology)
Honorary Research Associate (School of Humanities)

telephone: 0141 330 4194
email: Louisa.Campbell@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 311, Archaeology, Molema Building, Lilybank Gardens, G12 8QQ

Research interests

I am Lecturer in Heritage Materials Science with a specialism in material culture. My primary research interests focus on developing innovative methodologies and technologies to analyse and interpret artefacts set within the framework of appropriate theoretical models and cutting edge scientific techniques. My PhD thesis exploited museum collections to explore the social meanings of Roman material culture from Roman Scotland.

Since then I have expanded the chronological, material and geographical focus of my research using p-XRF and Raman Spectrometry to analyse elemental composition of a range of material culture classes through the Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Leadership Fellowship, generously funded by the University of Glasgow and Historic Environment Scotland. In collaboration with colleagues from Physics I am developing analytical equipment and software to bring innovation to the field of Heritage Materials Science. I am currently leading several research projects in collaboration with colleagues from across traditional disciplinary divides, including the College of Arts and the College of Science and Engineering. These include:

Analysing elemental composition of material culture
Recreating polychromy on the Hunterian Museum’s renowned Antonine Wall Distance Slabs
Investigating evidence of pigments on prehistoric, Roman and Medieval sculpture
Developing specialist equipment and bespoke software for non-destructive analysis and x-ray imagery of archaeological materials and works of art
Exploiting and promoting research collections in Scottish museums
Contributing to innovation in displaying temporary and permanent museum exhibits.

Publications

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Number of items: 37.

2025

Hack, Charleen, Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210, Pernicka, Ernst and Stepanov, Ivan (2025) Zur Farbigkeit der Ingelheimer Grabfiguren. Nassauische Annalen, 136, pp. 35-58.

2024

Finlay, N. et al. (2024) Bronze Age burials on Kirkcaldy High Street: revisiting the 1980 legacy excavations. Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal, 30, pp. 1-22.

Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 and Hack, Charleen (2024) pXRF and polychromy: identifying pigments on limestone statuary from the Roman limes, preliminary results. Heritage, 7(3), pp. 1701-1726. (doi: 10.3390/heritage7030080)

2023

Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2023) Tracking trajectories: projecting polychromy onto a Roman relief from a Scottish castle. Heritage, 6(4), pp. 3722-3744. (doi: 10.3390/heritage6040197)

Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2023) The Vindolanda vessel: pXRF and microphotography of an enamel-painted Roman gladiator glass. Heritage, 6(4), pp. 3638-3672. (doi: 10.3390/heritage6040194)

2022

Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 and Smith, Margaret ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2219-1381 (2022) Multi-technique analysis of pigments on sandstone sculptures: Renaissance re-painting of a Roman relief. Heritage Science, 10, 156. (doi: 10.1186/s40494-022-00790-7)

2021

Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2021) Memories, monumentality and materiality in Iron Age Scotland. In: Stoddart, Simon, Aines, Ethan and Malone, Caroline (eds.) Gardening Time. Monuments and Landscape from Sardinia, Scotland and Central Europe in the Very Long Iron Age. Cambridge University Press, pp. 37-45. ISBN 9781913344047

Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2021) Flipping the script on colonial narratives: replicating Roman reliefs from the Antonine Wall. Public Archaeology, 20(1-4), pp. 3-31. (doi: 10.1080/14655187.2021.1961438)

Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 and Jones, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8291-0101 (2021) Testing Composition by pXRF Analysis against Ceramic Shape, Style and Stamp: A Case Study from Samian Found on Hadrian’s Wall. In: Hegewisch, Morten, Daszkiewicz, Małgorzata and Schneider, Gerwulf (eds.) Using pXRF for the Analysis of Ancient Pottery: An Expert Workshop in Berlin 2014. Series: Berlin Studies of the Ancient World (75). Edition Topoi: Berlin, pp. 63-90. ISBN 9783981968590 (doi: 10.17171/3-75)

2020

Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2020) Polychromy on the Antonine Wall Distance sculptures: non-destructive Identification of pigments on Roman reliefs. Britannia, 51, pp. 175-201. (doi: 10.1017/S0068113X20000124)

Soler, Linnea ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4859-594X, Sproul, Craig and Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2020) Researchers of the Lost Pigments: A Multidisciplinary Student-developed Teaching Resource to Support Chemistry Students Using Genuine Archaeological Research. vVICEPHEC20: Variety in Chemistry Education and Physics Higher Education Conference, 17-21 Aug 2020. (Unpublished)

Sproul, Craig, Soler, Linnea ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4859-594X and Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2020) Science of the Lost Pigments: Using Roman Pigments to Teach Heritage Science. MICER: Methods in Chemistry Education Research, 09 Jun 2020. (Unpublished)

Sproul, Craig, Soler, Linnea ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4859-594X and Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2020) A POGIL Inspired Student-developed Teaching Resource (“Using Roman Pigments to Teach Heritage Science”) to Support Chemistry Pupils by Using Sequential Game-based, Small-group Problem-solving Exercises, Underpinned by Genuine Archaeological Research. 13th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, 01 Apr 2020.

Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2020) Monuments on the margins of Empire: the Antonine Wall sculptures. In: Breeze, D. J. and Hanson, William S. (eds.) The Antonine Wall: Papers in Honour of Professor Lawrence Keppie. Series: Archaeopress Roman archaeology (64). Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 96-109. ISBN 9781789694505

Sproul, Craig, Soler, Linnea ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4859-594X and Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2020) Science of The Lost Pigments – Using Roman Pigments to Teach Heritage Science. Let's Talk About X 2020, Glasgow, UK, 25-26 Feb 2020. (Unpublished)

Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2020) Reading the writing on the wall: discovering new dimensions to the Antonine Wall distance stones. Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 7(2), pp. 46-75.

2018

Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2018) Decorating the Distance Stones: pXRF and Portable Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of Pigments on the Antonine Wall Distance Stones. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (Unpublished)

Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210, Wright, Dene ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7937-8484 and Hall, Nicola A. (Eds.) (2018) Roots of Nationhood: The Archaeology and History of Scotland. Archaeopress: Oxford. ISBN 9781784919825

Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2018) Culture contact and the maintenance of cultural identity in Northern Britain: a theoretical approach. In: Campbell, Louisa, Wright, Dene and Hall, Nicola A. (eds.) Roots of Nationhood: the Archaeology and History of Scotland. Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 75-92. ISBN 9781784919825

Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 and Wright, Dene ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7937-8484 (2018) Introduction. In: Campbell, Louisa, Wright, Dene and Hall, Nicola A. (eds.) Roots of Nationhood: The Archaeology and History of Scotland. Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 1-5. ISBN 9781784919825

2016

Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2016) The Pottery in Mithras in Scotland: a Mithraeum at Inveresk (East Lothian). Britannia, 47, p. 152. (doi: 10.1017/S0068113X16000295)

Pierce, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2784-9683, Russell, A., Maldonado, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8470-603X and Campbell, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (Eds.) (2016) Creating Material Worlds: the uses of identity in archaeology. Oxbow Books Ltd.: Oxford. ISBN 9781785701801

Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2016) Proportionalising practices in the past: fragments beyond the frontier. In: Pierce, Elizabeth, Russell, Anthony, Maldonado, Adrian and Campbell, Louisa (eds.) Creating Material Worlds: The Uses of Identity in Archaeology. Oxbow Books: Oxford, pp. 215-239. ISBN 9781785701801

Jones, R.E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8291-0101 and Campbell, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2016) Non-destructive analysis of Samian ware from Scottish military sites. In: Peacock, David P.S., Sibbesson, Emilie, Jervis, Ben and Coxon, Sarah (eds.) Insight from Innovation: New Light on Archaeological Ceramics : Papers Presented in Honour of Professor David Peacock's Contributions to Archaeological Ceramic Studies. Series: Southampton monographs in archaeology (6). Highfield Press, pp. 118-136. ISBN 9780992633646

2015

Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2015) Interfacing with the Empire: materiality matters. In: Breeze, David J., Jones, Rebecca H. and Oltean, Ioana A. (eds.) Understanding Roman Frontiers: A Celebration for Professor Bill Hanson. John Donald: Edinburgh, pp. 167-181. ISBN 9781906566852

2014

Campbell, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2014) Negotiating identity on the edge of empire. In: Popa, C.N. and Stoddart, S. (eds.) Fingerprinting the Iron Age. Oxbow Books: Oxford, UK, pp. 211-222. ISBN 9781782976752

2013

Campbell, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2013) Samian pottery. In: Armit, Ian and McKenzie, Jo (eds.) An Inherited Place: Broxmouth Hillfort and the South-East Scotland Iron Age. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: Edinburgh, pp. 249-250. ISBN 9781908332059

2012

Campbell, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2012) Beyond the confines of empire: a reassessment of the Roman coarsewares from Traprain law. Journal of Roman Pottery Studies, 15, pp. 1-25.

Campbell, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2012) Inventory of Scottish Battlefields: Blar na Leine. Discussion Paper. Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.

Campbell, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2012) Inventory of Scottish Battlefields: Dunbar I. Discussion Paper. Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.

Campbell, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2012) Inventory of Scottish Battlefields: Dunkeld. Discussion Paper. Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.

Campbell, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2012) Inventory of Scottish Battlefields: Glenlivit. Discussion Paper. Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.

Campbell, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2012) Inventory of Scottish Battlefields: Inverlochy I. Discussion Paper. Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.

Campbell, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2012) Inventory of Scottish Battlefields: Loudoun Hill. Discussion Paper. Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.

Campbell, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2012) Inventory of Scottish Battlefields: Roslin. Discussion Paper. Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.

Campbell, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4101-8210 (2012) Modifying material: social biographies of Roman material culture. In: Jervis, B. and Kyle, A. (eds.) Make Do and Mend: The Archaeologies of Compromise, Repair and Reuse. Series: BAR international series (2408). Archaeopress: Oxford, UK, pp. 13-26. ISBN 9781407310060