Margaret Roxan

Margaret Roxan FSA (1924–2003) was a British archaeologist and expert on Roman military diplomas.

[1] Her major contribution to the discipline was three edited collections of newly-found diplomas that acquired a scholarly authority and place as the direct successor of Theodor Mommsen and Herbert Nesselhauf.

[1][2] Through her publications she illuminated the potential for Roman military diplomas as a source material and the significance of the information that could be gleaned from their study.

It was shown to Margaret in the 1990s, and she showed it was possible to clarify—and challenge—part of the account of the suppression of an invasion of Britain given by the Graeco-Roman historian Cassius Dio.

[5] Margaret Roxan was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1981, and was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.