Stephen Rippon
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Stephen Rippon is a landscape historian who holds the chair in Landscape Archaeology at the University of Exeter. He has published widely on the landscapes of Roman and medieval Britain.
Rippon was born and brought up in Essex.[1]
Academic career
Rippon completed his BA in Archaeology and his PhD studying wetland reclamation around the River Severn at the University of Reading, where he became a Research Fellow. He then received a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. He subsequently took a post as a lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Exeter where he is currently Professor of Landscape Archaeology.[2]
Awards and Honours
Rippon was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1999.[3] In 2025 he was awarded the British Academy Landscape Archaeology medal.[4]