Melanie Giles FSA FBA is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in Iron Age Britain.

[3] Giles' initial research looked at British Iron Age communities, especially the square barrow burials of East Yorkshire, resulting in her major monograph A Forged Glamour.

The book combined evidence for landscape management and mobility, aspects of community, power and personal biography, approached through the study of material culture including Iron Age mirrors, swords, shields and jewellery.

[4] More recent work has addressed disease and violence in Iron Age Britain, and their relationship with funerary behaviour and mortuary treatment.

[7] She has also undertaken the study of material culture, including the aesthetics of martial objects,[8] and the symbolic aspects of ironworking technology.