Ian Fisher BSc - Senior Project Supervisor

Email : ifisher@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Ian gained his BSc in Archaeology. He joined NA in 1999 and worked on a wide variety of projects, becoming a supervisor in 2002 with particular responsibility for geophysical survey. He is an extremely competent archaeological geophysicist trained in the use of a fluxgate gradiometer, Geoscan RM15 Resistance Meter and Bartington Magnetic Susceptibility MS2D Meter, and using Geoplot 3.0 to process and interpret data. Some of the larger geophysical survey projects that Ian has supervised include Luton Hoo and the Great Barford Bypass project, Bedfordshire, and Cringleford, Norfolk. He is experienced in the use of GIS systems, and works with GPS for the setting out and plotting of geophysical surveys and excavation areas. Ian has supervised excavations that include trial trenching at Marston Mortaine, Bedfordshire and open area excavation at Burwell, Cambridgeshire.

Chris Jones - Senior Project Supervisor

Email : cjones@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Chris joined NA as a project assistant in 1986, working on the excavation of the prehistoric monuments and deserted medieval hamlet at West Cotton, Raunds. Following a period with OAU, he returned to NA as a project assistant and later project supervisor. He has extensive experience of excavation and watching briefs, particularly in quarry environments including Irchester, Stanwick, Wollaston and Bozeat quarries in Northamptonshire. He assisted in the recovery and recording of the Iron Age and Roman landscape at Wollaston quarry and has supervised excavation on the barrow cemetery at Gayhurst Quarry, Buckinghamshire and on Roman and early medieval settlement at Ketton Quarry, Rutland. He has also supervised excavations at Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, at Iron Age and Roman enclosures at Wombwell, South Yorkshire and a wide range of other sites around the country. He co-supervised the excavation of a medieval cemetery at Wallingford in Oxfordshre, and continues supervising the long running archaeological programmes at Ketton, Maxey and Bozeat quarries.

Danny McAree MA, MBA, Dip Arch, PIFA - Senior Project Supervisor

Email : dmcaree@northamptonshire.co.uk

Danny took his Diploma in Practical Archaeology, and an MA in Landscape and Geomatics, having previously gained an MBA. Danny has been involved in archaeology for over 30 years being an active volunteer in and around Warwickshire. After taking early retirement, he spent a year at university studying practical archaeology. Since 1998, Danny has worked on a variety of sites around the midlands both as a project assistant and supervisor. He has also worked on excavations in Shropshire, Somerset, Durham, Scotland and Ireland, and also in France, Tunisia and Turkey. He joined NA in 2001 and has been employed on a variety of urban and rural sites covering most periods, as well as building recording, desk-based assessments and trial trench evaluations. Recently he has supervised urban excavations in Lichfield, including tanning pits; a medieval tile kiln in Warwick; and urban sites in Coventry, including the excavation of a length of the town ditch, which contained numerous leather shoes.

Steve Morris- Senior Project Supervisor

Email : smorris@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Steve has been with NA since 1985, and has gained a wide range of experience in large-scale excavation through work on sites such as the medieval village and prehistoric landscape at West Cotton, Raunds and at Kirby Hall, as well as many smaller projects. He is skilled in field walking, geophysical survey and earthwork surveying, together with related Geographic Information Systems skills. He has supervised a wide range of excavations in Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire, including the excavation of urban medieval monastic cemeteries at St Faith’s Lane, Norwich and St James’ Abbey, Northampton. Steve has also supervised large-scale rural excavations at the deserted medieval village at Coton Park, Rugby, Warwickshire, the medieval moated manor at Tempsford Park, Bedfordshire, and at the extensive early prehistoric landscape at Maxey, near Peterborough. More recently he has carried out excavation and watching brief in advance of industrial development next to Irchester Roman town, Northamptonshire, and the excavation of a Roman settlement near Newport Pagnell, Bucks.

Tim Upson-Smith BA PGDip -Senior Project Supervisor

Email : TUpsonSmith@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Tim gained a BA in Archaeology and a Postgraduate Diploma in Cultural & Landscape Archaeology & Management. Tim started as a volunteer with the Suffolk Archaeological Unit before going to university. During and after his degree he worked with the Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society and on the Scottish Episcopal Palaces Project at Fetternear House, Aberdeenshire, gaining experience in a wide range of digging, recording and surveying techniques, before joining the Coventry City Council Archaeological Unit. He followed this with a brief spell working freelance working on the Buildings Survey of St Monan's Castle in Fife before joining NA in 2000. Tim has worked on a variety of projects including watching briefs, desk-based assessments, buildings recording, trial trench evaluations and field walking. The sites he has supervised include work on the Roman town defences at Towcester, and on Roman settlement in the environs of the Wootton Fields Roman villa, Northampton. He is also supervising a long-running investigation of the Iron Age and Roman landscape at Adwick-le-Street, Doncaster.

Anne Foard-Colby Cert Ed

Email : AFoardColby@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Anne had extensive archaeological experience gained on sites of various periods and types throughout Great Britain before training and working as a teacher. Since re-joining Northamptonshire Archaeology in 2002, she has worked on a large number of projects as Assistant Supervisor, including urban sites in Lichfield and Warwick and on bypass projects on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent and West Haddon, Northamptonshire. She has experience of building recording, particularly at St Crispins Hospital, Northampton and New Inn Stowe, Buckinghamshire, and garden archaeology including the evaluation of the south terrace at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. She has researched a number of desk-based assessments and co-written a conservation plan for Duffield Castle, Derbyshire on behalf of The National Trust. Promoted to Project Supervisor in 2006, Anne has overseen numerous watching briefs and trial trench evaluations, including road and housing schemes. She has also supervised open area excavations in Warwick, Birmingham and recently at Upton, Northampton. Her research interests include analysis of post-medieval pottery, and the public interpretation and presentation of archaeology.

Carol Simmonds BA

Email : csimmonds@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Carol gained a BA in Archaeology from the University of York in 2001. She worked as a student at Castle Henllys in Wales and at Wood Hall Moated Manor site in Yorkshire before beginning her degree. Since graduating she has worked for ADS Ltd in Ireland and for Cotswold Archaeology. She has also worked as a CAD technician for Dr Harold Mytum at the University of York and for Humber Field Archaeology. Carol joined NA in 2003 as a Project Assistant working at Doncaster, Lincoln and Canterbury. In 2004 she was promoted to Assistant Supervisor and assisted in the running of the Kenilworth Castle Elizabethan Garden investigations, carried out by NA for English Heritage. In October 2006 she was promoted to Supervisor. She has recently led earthwork survey projects carried out for the Forestry Commission at Salcey Forest, Northamptonshire and Bedford Purlieus. She is a member of the NA geophysics team, and is skilled in Auto-CAD, MapInfo and Corel Draw.

Adrian Burrow MA

Email : aburrow@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Adrian completed a graduate degree in archaeology and spent several years working in field archaeology before joining NA in 2002. He worked on a number of projects throughout Britain before being promoted to Assistant Project Supervisor in 2004, after which he has run numerous watching briefs, evaluations, GPS surveys and excavations. He was made Project Supervisor in 2006. Adrian assisted with the supervision of a number of large scale landscape projects including a prehistoric monument complex near Bedford, Romano-British settlements and cemeteries on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent and at Yaxley, Huntingdonshire. Recently, he has supervised sites across the country including Oxfordshire, Coventry city centre, Cambridgeshire and South Yorkshire and has directed area excavation at the Bronze Age barrow cemetery at Passenham quarry, Buckinghamshire. Adrian makes extensive use of digital surveying equipment, particularly GPS and has worked on large scale landscape surveying projects for NA on the Isle of Lewis and the Great War training camps on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire. He has also worked in New Zealand, Oceania, Australia, the United States and the Near East.

Jason Clarke BSc MA PIFA

Email : jclarke@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Jason gained a BSc in Archaeology from Leicester University in 2000 and a MA in Heritage and Archaeology, via distance learning from Leicester University in 2005. He started working for Cambridge Archaeology Unit in 2001 where he worked on many large scale excavations in the quarries of Cambridgeshire, including Bradley Fen and urban sites in Cambridge. In 2002 he moved north to work on the A1M Darrington to Dishforth road scheme in Yorkshire, firstly for West Yorkshire Archaeology Service and then Oxford Archaeology North, where he was on the team that excavated the Ferry Fryston chariot burial. He spent a further 3 years working on sites in northern England for Oxford Archaeology North, including the Liverpool Old Dock project and various industrial projects in Manchester. Jason joined NA in October 2006 as a Project Supervisor. He has supervised open area excavations of a prehistoric to Romano-British site at Northborough, Peterborough and Iron Age enclosures at Market Harborough, Leicestershire, and has also undertaken numerous evaluations and watching briefs. Interests include the pre-Roman East Midlands and Fenland, Viking Age archaeology and archaeological photography.

Pat Chapman BA, CMS, AIFA - post-excavation and publication

Email : pachapman@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Leon Field BA BComm

Email : LField@northamptonshire.gov.uk