Eleanor Scott

Eleanor Scott (born 8 July 1960) is a British archaeologist and politician. She founded the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) in 1991.

Career Scott is from the Isle of Man. She graduated from Newcastle University in 1982, subsequently completing her PhD on Romano-British villas funded by the Isle of Man.

Scott founded the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference in 1991.

Political career Scott was a Liberal Democrat member of Portsmouth City Council from 2002 to 2015, and she resigned in January 2014. Portsmouth City Council conferred the title of honorary alderman on her in 2016.

Selected works

Scott, E. (ed) 1993. Theoretical Roman Archaeology: First Conference Proceedings (TRAC 1). Aldershot. Scott, E. 1993. A Gazetteer of Roman Villas in Britain.University of Leicester School of Archaeological Studies. Scott, E. and Moore, J. (eds) 1996. Invisible People and Places. Writing Gender and Childhood into European Archaeology. Routledge. Scott, E. 1999. The archaeology of infancy and infant death. Archaeopress. .