David Colin Arthur Shotter FSA (3 January 1939 – 22 May 2021) was a British archaeologist and Professor of Roman Imperial History at the University of Lancaster.

Shotter was born in London and educated at King's College School, London and the University of Southampton. He taught at Magee University College, Derry (now part of Ulster University) from 1964 to 1966 and was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Classics at the University of Lancaster in 1966.

During his career, he established and chaired over 40 annual archaeological conferences for the university's Centre for North-West Regional Studies. He was Principal of Lonsdale College, Lancaster and was appointed Professor of Roman Imperial History in 2003 and retired in 2004.^[1][2]

Shotter worked to establish the Cumbria and Lancashire Archaeological Unit (1979), which later became the LU Archaeological Unit (1986). He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.^[1][3]

He was also a co-founder of the Lancaster Archaeological and Historical Society and its journal, Contrebis. He also played a major role in the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, as a council member, vice-president and president (2005-2008).^[1][3]

• Shotter, D. C. A. (2008), Nero Caesar Augustus, London: Routledge, ISBN 978-1405-824-57-6
• Shotter, D. C. A.; McClintock, M. E. (2006), Serving the Region: A History of the North-West Regional Studies Centre at Lancaster University, 1970-2006, Lancaster: University of Lancaster, ISBN 978-1862-201-74-3
• Shotter, D. C. A. (2005), The Fall of the Roman Republic, Lancaster Pamphlets (2nd ed.), London: Routledge, ISBN 978-0415-319-40-9
• Shotter, D. C. A. (2005), Augustus Caesar, Lancaster Pamphlets (2nd ed.), London, ISBN 978-0415-319-36-2{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Shotter, D. C. A. (2005), Nero, Lancaster Pamphlets (2nd ed.), London: Routledge, ISBN 978-0415-319-42-3
• Shotter, D. C. A. (2004), Roman Britain, Lancaster Pamphlets (2nd ed.), New York, ISBN 978-0415-319-44-7{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Shotter, D. C. A. (2004), Tiberius Caesar, Lancaster Pamphlets, London: Routledge, ISBN 978-0415-319-46-1
• Shotter, D. C. A. (2004), Romans and Britons in North-West England, Lancaster: University of Lancaster, ISBN 978-1862-201-52-1
• Shotter, D. C. A. (2003), Rome and her Empire, London: Routledge, ISBN 978-0582-328-16-7
• Shotter, D. C. A. (2002), Ambleside Roman Fort, Grasmere: National Trust
• Shotter, D. C. A. (2000), Roman Coins from North-West England: Second Supplement, Lancaster: University of Lancaster, ISBN 978-1862-201-00-2
• Shotter, D. C. A. (1998), The Roman Fort and Town of Lancaster, Lancaster: University of Lancaster, ISBN 978-0901-272-80-5
• Shotter, D. C. A. (1996), The Roman Frontier in Britain: Hadrian's Wall, the Antonine Wall, and Roman policy in the North, Preston: Carnegie Publishing, ISBN 978-1859-360-15-6
• Shotter, D. C. A.; White, Andrew (1995), The Romans in Lunesdale, Lancaster: University of Lancaster, ISBN 978-0901800688
• Shotter, D.C.A. (1993), Suetonius, Lives of Galba, Otho, and Vitellius, Warminster: Aris and Phillips, ISBN 978-0856685385
• Shotter, D. C. A. (1989), Tacitus, Annals IV, Warminster: Aris and Phillips, ISBN 978-0856684043
• Shotter, D. C. A. (1984), Roman North-West England, Centre for North West Regional Studies: Occasional Paper No. 14, Lancaster: University of Lancaster, ISBN 0-901-272-09-4