Brian Hartley

Brian Rodgerson Hartley MA, FSA (31 December 1929 – 26 April 2005) was a British archaeologist who specialised in Roman pottery studies.

Early life and education Hartley was born in Chester in 1929 and won a scholarship to the King's School Chester. While still at school he took part in his first excavation, at Heronbridge, Cheshire. In 1948 he heard a lecture by Sir Ian Richmond who became a great influence on him. After national service in the RAF, he studied natural sciences at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 1960 an inscription was discovered which showed the name of a previously unknown governor of Britain C. Valerius Pudens. Hartley also directed other major excavations in Yorkshire, at the forts of Ilkley, Bowes (with Sheppard Frere), Slack, Lease Rigg and the villa at Kirk Sink, Gargrave. and The Brigantes (1988, with Leon Fitts).

Honours and awards He became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries on London in 1957.

Personal life Brian Hartley was married twice, first to Katherine F. Kaine, also a specialist in Roman pottery, marriage dissolved in 1973, and then to Elizabeth Blank, a museum curator.