Dr Sheppard Frere is a British historian and archaeologist studying the Roman Empire. Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... For other uses, see Roman Empire (disambiguation) The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Ancient Roman polity in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as Augustus), until its radical reformation in what was later to be known as the Byzantine...
Between 1955 and 1961 he excavated at Verulamium. He then became Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces at the University of London from 1961 to 1966 before becoming Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at Oxford University. He is now retired. Remains of the city walls Verulamium was the third largest city in Roman Britain. ... Senate House, designed by Charles Holden home to the universitys central administrative offices and its library The University of London is a federation of colleges and institutes which together constitute one of the worlds largest universities. ... For other uses, see Roman Empire (disambiguation) The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Ancient Roman polity in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as Augustus), until its radical reformation in what was later to be known as the Byzantine... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...
As regards the Freres of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, a Walter Frere represented Wycombe in the Parliaments of 1381, 1386, and 1387.
SheppardFrere used the arms with the tinctures reversed, and his children and grandchildren followed his example, although there was no authority for doing so; and the error has been perpetuated by John Hookham Frere's verses on the subject.
RICHARD FRERE, eldest son of Thomas Frere, of Bressingham, is stated in the Barbadoes pedigree to have married Margaret, daughter of....
Perhaps the most remarkable of the many discoveries made by SheppardFrere in his long seasons of excavations at Canterbury was the discovery of Anglo-Saxon sunken huts in the ruins of the Roman city.
Adjacent to it were the public baths discovered by Frere, while opposite there was a large open area which probably contained a classical temple which is the major Roman discovery of the current excavations.
In this new layout, Marlowe II was occupied by part of the public baths with a portico surrounding it, as indeed Frere had discovered in his earlier trenches.
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