Steve Parry BA MA MIFA - Principal Archaeologist

Email : sparry@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Steve gained his BA in Archaeology and Medieval History and his MA in Archaeological Method. In 1982 he supervised at the excavation of the Saxon Palaces in Northampton for the Northampton Development Corporation, and he joined Northamptonshire County Council to supervise at Ashton Roman town, Oundle. From 1985-1993 he was Project Officer for the Raunds Area Survey, a major archaeological landscape survey now in press as a monograph. He conducted the archaeological excavation of the Privy Garden at Hampton Court and was a member of the Research and Design Team which guided the subsequent restoration of the garden. Steve joined the NA management team and became the Principal Archaeologist in 1998. Steve provides the technical direction to the staff and sets the working standards for the organisation. He leads on consulting work, providing archaeological expertise and planning advice to a range of clients, including preparation of relevant parts of Environment Impact Statements. Steve holds a certificate in Occupational Health and Safety issued by the National Examination Board for Occupational Health and Safety, and acts as a Safety Advisor for Sustainability.

Andy Chapman BSc, MIFA - Senior Archaeologist (Publication)

Email : achapman@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Andy gained his BSc in Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy. He was a supervisor for the Chesterfield Archaeological Research Committee in the mid 1970s, and also worked throughout England as well as in Northern Ireland and central France. He joined the Northampton Development Corporation in 1976 to supervise at the Briar Hill Neolithic causewayed enclosure. In 1978 he joined Northamptonshire County Council to supervise at the late Saxon/early medieval church and cemetery at Furnells, Raunds and in the late 1980s was senior supervisor at West Cotton, Raunds for the excavation of prehistoric monuments and the late Saxon and medieval village. He has written the monograph report on the village excavation. In the 1990s he directed open area excavations on Iron Age and Roman sites in Basingstoke, Northamptonshire and Rugby, and at a Bronze Age barrow cemetery at Gayhurst Quarry, Buckinghamshire. Urban excavations include the first recovery of the 10th to 17th century town defences at Northampton and the excavation of the cemetery of St James’ Abbey, Northampton. More recently he carried out a landscape survey of part of the Ashridge estate, including the Grim’s Ditch earthworks, for the National Trust. Andy also specialises in iron working slag, prehistoric flint analysis, Iron Age pottery and medieval stylised chess pieces. As Senior Archaeologist he is working on the backlog and current publication programme, as well as managing the website and the new programme of popular site summary leaflets. He is on the committee of the Northamptonshire Archaeological Society, and is co-editor of the county journal Northamptonshire Archaeology.

Bill Boismier Phd MIFA - Senior Archaeologist (Operations)

Email : bboismier@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Bill joined NA in January 2006 from Norfolk where he was Archaeology Manager (Assistant Director) and most recently directed the mammoth site at Lynford Quarry, Mundford and is still involved with the publication of this major English Heritage sponsored project. He is originally from the USA where he began his archaeological career and gained his BA in Anthropology at Arizona State University. Bill has been a UK resident since 1980, continuing in academic archaeology with an M Phil in Archaeology from Newcastle, an MA in Archaeological Method from Southampton and a PhD in Archaeology from Cambridge. His fieldwork on archaeological sites ranges in date from the Middle Palaeolithic to post-medieval periods. Bill is also experienced in project design and management; knowledge of rural land management issues, the planning process and archaeological legislation. He has worked in Hampshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Essex, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Greater London and Northumbria, with additional experience managing controversial fieldwork projects such as a Mesolithic site on the route of the A34 Newbury Bypass and the excavation of the timber structure at Holme-Next-The-Sea, Norfolk (Seahenge). His interests include Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology, ploughzone archaeology, arctic and subarctic anthropology, site and assemblage formation processes (depositional and post-depositional), landscape archaeology and settlement pattern analysis, lithic analysis, intrasite spatial analysis and the general application of quantitative methods in archaeology.