Mark Holmes MA

Email : mpholmes@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Mark has a BA in Archaeology and an MA in Archaeological Method. As a site assistant with the Museum of London (DUA & DGLA), Mark worked on urban excavations in Leadenhall Court, Whitefriars and Moorgate and the medieval hospital and cemetery at Norton Folgate and Spital square. He joined NA in 1987 to work on the Raunds Area Survey. He became Project Officer in 1998 and directed Iron Age sites in Northampton, Basingstoke and Heybridge Hall, Essex and a Roman cemetery in Towcester. Other projects include part of the Saxon/medieval cemetery attached to the minster church at Wing, Bucks, and the excavation of the medieval cathedral at Coventry. More recently Mark has directed urban excavations in the city of Norwich. During this time Mark has become experienced in surveying, geophysical survey, and GIS mapping. He is Health and Safety representative for NA. At present Mark is working on the Historic Landscape Characterisation Project, an element of the County Council’s wider landscape characterisation project, funded by English Heritage as part of an ongoing national scheme.

Anthony Maull Cert Arch

Email : amaull@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Anthony took his Certificate in British Archaeology with the University of Birmingham. He was a supervisor for various projects for Trent and Peak Archaeological Services, including Nottingham Castle. He joined Bedfordshire County Council Archaeological Services in 1984, and supervised several major excavations. These included urban sites within the historic core of Bedford; seven seasons of a major landscape project studying the Roman small town of Sandy and its hinterland; multi-period sites excavated in advance of the Bedford Southern Bypass; and the excavation of the monastic complex of Dunstable Friary. Since joining NA in 1998 as Project Officer Anthony has directed several excavations including Coton medieval village, Rugby, a medieval moated manor at Tempsford, Bedfordshire, Iron Age and Roman settlement in Northampton and the re-excavation of a major mosaic at a Roman villa at Croughton, Northamptonshire. He is also managing a long-term investigation of the Iron Age and Roman landscape at Adwick-le-Street, Doncaster and current projects include the excavation of prehistoric monuments and Roman settlement near Bedford and a Roman settlement site near Bicester, Oxfordshire.

Ian Meadows BA

Ian has a BA in Archaeology. He was a supervisor for the Scottish Development Department, St Albans Museum and at Ashton Roman town, Oundle, for Northamptonshire County Council before becoming a freelance consultant. While Archaeological Officer for Peterborough City Council in 1988 he studied for the Museum Diploma course. Since rejoining NA in 1992 Ian has directed and managed a variety of major projects. The landscape study of the Nene Valley at Wollaston, Northamptonshire recovered an extensive Iron Age and Roman landscape, including the identification of Roman vineyards. An Anglo-Saxon burial with a boar-crested Anglo-Saxon helmet, only the fourth helmet of this date in the country, was also found Other excavations include late Saxon and medieval occupation in Warmington, Northamptonshire and prehistoric, Roman, and medieval settlement at Ketton Quarry, Rutland and Maxey Quarry, Cambridgeshire. Ian is now based in Bath, working on the final reports for his major excavations and managing projects for NA based in the south-west region.

Antony Walsh BA

Email : twalsh@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Tony gained his BA in History with Landscape Archaeology. His archaeological career began with the Humberside Archaeological Unit and at the Hull Museums and Art Gallery. He then spent seven years with Bedfordshire County Archaeological Service (BCAS), later Albion Archaeology, as an archaeological technician and supervisor. During his period at Bedford Tony was Course Tutor for the Certificate in Archaeology at Cambridge University's Department for Continuing Education. More recently Tony was archaeological consultant with EC Harris covering all aspects of fieldwork from initial identification to post-excavation. Tony joined NA in January 2003 as a Senior Project Officer and has managed a wide range of projects including major trial trench evaluations in advance of quarry planning applications at Earls Barton, Northants and Passenham, Beds, as well as an urban site in Doncaster and an important middle Saxon settlement and medieval village origins site at Wolverton, near Milton Keynes.

Adam Yates BA AIFA

Email : ayates@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Adam gained a BA in Ancient History and Archaeology. He has worked on a wide range of sites in England and Wales. In 1995 Adam was appointed Project Officer at the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust. He has directed a number of major excavation and assessment projects in South Wales and south-west England including a late Neolithic/early Bronze Age Causewayed Enclosure at Ewenny, Bridgend; a series of late Bronze Age occupation and medieval moated sites at Cabot Park Avonmouth; a Roman roadside settlement and legionary cemetery at Bulmore, Caerleon; and Iron Age timber buildings at Greenmoor Arch, Newport. He joined Northamptonshire Archaeology in 2003 and has managed rural sites in Kent, particularly an Iron Age/Romano-British site on the Isle of Sheppey, a prehistoric ritual complex and Roman settlement site near Bedford, and urban sites in Lichfield and a medieval tile kiln in Warwick. Adam’s research interests lie principally in alluvial archaeology, waterlogged timber and later prehistoric landscapes.

Simon Carlyle MSc MIfA

Email : scarlyle@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Simon gained a BSc and an MSc in Environmental Archaeology. He joined NA in 1999 and worked on various sites, such as Tempsford moated manor, Bedfordshire, Iron Age and Saxon settlement in Ely and the prehistoric landscape at Maxey. He supervised a number of sites along the course of the A43 Towcester to M40 road improvement scheme, including the excavation of a late Iron Age settlement and iron smelting furnaces near Syresham. He has supervised a number of evaluations and excavations, including the excavation of Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement at Fenstanton, Cambridgshire, and a Bronze Age ring ditch together with Iron Age and medieval remains at Elstow near Bedford. Other projects include an industrial urban site in Sheffield and a large evaluation near Cowbridge, Glamorganshire. He has directed open area excavation of a prehistoric monument complex and Roman settlement site near Bedford, and is currently directing a extensive open area excavation of Roman site near the M1 at Northampton.

Iain Soden BA MIFA

Email : isoden@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Iain read Classics, graduating in 1983. His career began in his home city of Coventry and work has taken him back there on numerous occasions; as an archaeological supervisor 1985-8, Museum Field Archaeologist 1990-93, as the Planning Archaeologist 2002-3 and most recently to manage further urban sites within the city, which has included the investigation of a length of the two ditch. In between there were spells of research at Castle Bromwich Hall in 1988 and Warwickshire Museum during1989. His association with Northamptonshire Archaeology began in 1993, taking on urban projects in Coventry, Daventry, Northampton and Norwich. He rejoined NA at the start of 2004. Iain has experience of directing, managing and reporting deeply stratified urban sites, the recording and analysis of buildings, medieval and post-medieval ceramics, together with medieval and post-medieval cemeteries. He is equally at home with historic maps and documents, including medieval Latin and courthand/secretarial hand, usually in pursuance of historic townscape reconstruction. His principal research interest is monastic archaeology which has taken him all over Europe and he has excavated and researched Abbey/Priory sites of six different monastic orders, including the nave of the spectacular Romanesque first Cathedral at Coventry. He has written Coventry: the hidden history for Tempus, published in 2005.