Charles Roeder

Carl "Charles" Roeder (1848 – 9 September 1911) was a German-born British amateur archaeologist, antiquarian, folklorist, philologist, and naturalist, who published his work under the name "Charles Roeder".

He became a clerk in a shipping warehouse and eventually started his own business in Manchester.

He devoted his leisure to study of archaeology, folklore, philology, history, geology, and botany.

He published articles on his archaeological work concerning Roman Britain in the Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society.

[1] From 1897 to 1900 Roeder carried out important, pioneering excavations of Roman artifacts from the Castlefied area of Manchester.