Alexandra T. Croom BA is a British archaeologist and museum curator.

Career

Croom is the Keeper of Archaeology at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 29 April 2010.

Exhibitions

Croom has been involved in the planning and delivery of several exhibitions for Tyne & Wear Archives & Museum including: *''The Glory of Rome: Arbeia's Greatest Treasures'' (2014): An exhibition at ''

Arbeia Arbeia was a large Roman fort in South Shields, Tyne & Wear, England, now ruined, and which has been partially reconstructed. It was first excavated in the 1870s and all modern buildings on the site were cleared in the 1970s. It is managed by Tyn ...

'' fort. *''Saving Face'' (2018): An exhibition of a private collections of Roman helmet cheek-pieces. *''Borderline Funny'' (2019): An exhibition in '' Segedunum'' of modern cartoons related to

Hadrian's Wall Hadrian's Wall ( la, Vallum Aelium), also known as the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or ''Vallum Hadriani'' in Latin, is a former defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. R ...

Select publications

*Bidwell, P. T., Croom, A., Snape, M. E. 1999. ''Hardknott Roman Fort, Cumbria : including an account of the excavations by the late Dorothy Charlesworth''. Kendal : Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society *Croom, A. T. and Griffiths, W. B. (eds) 2002. ''Re-enactment as Research : Proceedings of the Twelfth International Roman Military Equipment Conference, held at the Customs House, South Shields, UK, 24th-26th September 1999''(Journal of Military Equipment Studies 11). Armatura Press. *Croom, A. 2010. ''Roman Clothing and Fashion''. Stroud, Amberley. *Croom, A. 2010. ''Roman Furniture''. Stroud, The History Press. *Rushworth, A., Croom, A., Bishop, M. C., MacRae, C., Johnstone, M., 2016. ''Segedunum : excavations by Charles Daniels in the Roman fort at Wallsend (1975-1984). Volume 1 The structural remains''. Oxford, Oxbow.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Croom, Alexandra Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century British archaeologists 21st-century British archaeologists British women archaeologists British women curators Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London British women classical scholars