Curator The Netherlands in the Roman period collections
Dr. Jasper de Bruin
Phone number: +31 (0)71 5163 153
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ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6409-3774
Study and career
Jasper de Bruin (1976) studied Archaeology of the Roman Period at the University of Amsterdam. After graduating, he worked as an archaeologist for the municipality of Delft. From 2006, he worked as a lecturer and researcher at Leiden University for almost 15 years. During that time, Jasper was nominated twice for the Education Prize of Leiden University and obtained his PhD with a study of the Cananefates, the local population of the South Holland region in the Roman period. In recent decades Jasper has carried out numerous excavations, including in Delft, Leiden, Naaldwijk and Oegstgeest. As of 2019 Jasper is Curator of the collection the Netherlands in Roman times of the National Museum of Antiquities.
Research
Jasper’s interest is broadly focused on the material culture and archaeological theory of the Roman period in Northwestern Europe. In the coming years, the focus of research on the Netherlands during the Roman period will be on the Roman Limes, the Roman villa landscape in Limburg and making Roman writing tablets from the Netherlands legible.
Ask me a question about
- Archaeology of the Netherlands and Northwest Europe in the Roman Period
- Material culture of The Netherlands and Northwest Europe in the Roman period
- Methods and techniques of archaeological fieldwork
Important research projects
- Een Romeinse idylle. Villa’s in Limburg (2022-present, in collaboration with the Limburgs Museum, the Thermenmuseum and the Cultural Heritage Agency)
- Opgraving Hazerswoude (2021-present, in collaboration with municipality of Alphen aan den Rijn, the Omgevingsdienst Midden-Holland, the province of Zuid-Holland and Vestigia BV)
- Goedereede-Oude Oostdijk: Een Romeinse handelsplaats, Nederland (2010-2012)
Jasper de Bruin
Important publications
- Bruin, J. de, C. Eger, M. Schmauder, M. Zandstra (eds) 2022. Niedergermanische Limes Top 100 Funde/ Neder-Germaanse Limes Top 100 vondsten/Lower German Limes Top 100 Finds. Oppenheim: Nünnerich-Asmus Verlag.
- Bruin, J. de, 2021. Domitian and the Lower German Limes (The Netherlands), in Raimondi Cominesi, A./N. de Haan/E.M. Moormann/C. Stocks (red.), God on Earth: Emperor Domitian. The re-invention of Rome at the end of the 1st century AD, Leiden: Sidestone Press (PALMA 24), 63-68.
- Bruin, J. de/C. Bakels/F. Theuws, 2021. Oegstgeest. A riverine settlement in the early medieval world system, Merovingian Archaeology in the Low Countries 7. Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH.
- Bruin, J. de, 2020. Romeinen langs de Rijn. Leiden: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.
- Bruin, J. de, 2019. Border communities at the Edge of the Roman Empire. Processes of Change in the Civitas Cananefatium. Amsterdam Archaeological Studies 28. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Bruin, J. de, 2019. From The Hague to Britannia – Severan military activities along the North Sea coast (193-235 AD), in: Zoolingen, R.J. van, 2019, Ab Harenis Incvltis. Artikelen voor Ab Waasdorp, Gemeente Den Haag, afdeling Archeologie, 137-153.
- Ivleva, T./J. de Bruin/M. Driessen (red.), 2018. Embracing the Provinces: Society and Material Culture of the Roman Frontier Regions. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Bruin, J. de, 2017. Rurale gemeenschappen in de Civitas Cananefatium 50-300 na Christus (PhD thesis, Archaeology, Leiden).
- Polak M./J. de Bruin, 2016. The Lower German Limes in the Netherlands. A scientific assessment of the site selection for the ‘Frontiers of the Roman Empire’ Unesco World Heritage Site. Nijmegen: Auxilia.
- Bruin, J. de, 2015. Uncovering Roman fort Matilo in Leiden, 70-250 AD. Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 45, 181-189.
- Bruin, J. de, 2012. Connectivity in the south-western part of the Netherlands during the Roman period (AD 0-350). Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 43/44, 145-157.
- Bruin, J. de/G.P.A. Besuijen/H.A.R. Siemons/R.J. van Zoolingen, 2012. Goedereede-Oude Oostdijk. Een Havenplaats uit de Romeinse tijd. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
Jasper de Bruin
Important exhibitions
- Romeinen langs de Rijn (Leiden, 2020-2021)
Important lectures and conferences
- 2021, Romeins Valkenburg. Een overzicht. Symposium Romeinen langs de Rijnlandroute, Valkenburg (ZH).
- 2019, Van Den Haag naar Britannia. Romeinse-militaire activiteiten langs de Noordzeekust in de Severische periode (193-235 n.Chr). Afscheidssymposium Ab Waasdorp, Museon, Den Haag.
- 2019, All roads lead to Britain. Archaeological evidence for the preparations of the Severan campaigns on the continent. Roman Northern Frontiers Seminar, Newcastle University.
- 2018, Die Civitas Cananefatium. Die Armee, die Stadt und die Gemeinschaft der Cananefaten. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main.
In the media
- 2021, Een Romeinse schatkamer in de Hazerswoudse klei. Leidsch Dagblad, 19 november.
- 2020, Nederlandse ‘Romeinen’ kwamen maar zelden uit Italië. NRC, 20 november.
- 2019, Unieke Romeinse tekst gevonden bij Valkenburg (ZH). NOS, 19 juli.
- 2018, De Cananefaten stammen uit Velsen. NRC, 15 januari.