Niall Sharples

Niall Sharples is a professor at Cardiff University. He has excavated widely throughout Britain including in Shetland, Orkney, the Outer Hebrides, Dorset, Somerset and Glamorgan. His interests were originally focused on prehistory and he has written an important book on Social Relationship in Later Prehistory about the first millennium BC in Wessex, but recently his attention has been focused on the Norse settlement of the North Atlantic.