Dr Toby Martin
Assistant Director, Oxford Lifelong Learning
About
Dr Toby Martin is an expert in Anglo-Saxon archaeology of the fifth to seventh centuries CE. He specialises in the study of artefacts, art history and burial archaeology belonging to that period in England and beyond.
Dr Martin is an active researcher, has published widely across the archaeology of this period, and is available for comment on recent discoveries and new research.
Expertise
- Archaeology
- Anglo-Saxon
- Early Medieval Europe
- Medieval studies
- Archaeological excavation
- Ancient jewellery
Selected publications
- Quality from Kent: Preliminary results from the analysis of fifth- to seventh-century silver alloys (ArchaeometryEarly View, 2025)
- Barbaric Splendour: The Use of Image Before and After Rome (Archaeopress, 2020)
- Casting the Net Wider: Network Approaches to Artefact Variation in Post-Roman Europe (Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2020)
- Dress and Society: contributions from archaeology (Oxbow Books, 2017)
- The Cruciform Brooch and Anglo-Saxon England (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2015)
Media experience
Dr Toby Martin has media experience including having written for publications such as The Conversation, the Times Literary Supplement and the popular magazine British Archaeology.
Recent media work
- Spectacular Anglo-Saxon burial uncovered – here’s what it tells us about women in 17th-century England (The Conversation, 2022)
- The telltale dead: Making history from graveyard excavations (Times Literary Supplement, 2022)
- Landlords: Elucidating the complexities of the transformations of post- Roman Britain (Times Literary Supplement, 2021)
- The dead have no names: Archaeology and the search for narrative (Times Literary Supplement, 2020)