Adrian Butler BSc MA AIFA M.EAGE

Email : abutler@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Adrian gained a BSc in Archaeological Sciences and an MA in Landscape Studies. He is a member of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers. He has worked across the UK as a geophysicist and field archaeologist. Adrian has been responsible for surveying a number of extensive Iron Age and Romano-British settlements and is involved in research on a Roman fort and the Anglo-Saxon Burgh in Wallingford, Oxfordshire. He has a particular interest in applying novel geophysical approaches to archaeological questions, such as electromagnetic survey in urban areas. Adrian has been responsible for desk-based assessments, trial trench evaluations and watching briefs on a wide variety of projects. He has been the manager of geophysical prospecting projects since joining NA in February 2003.

Joe Prentice

Email : jprentice@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Joe joined NA in 1993 as a supervisor for the excavation of the Privy Garden at Hampton Court Palace. Since then he has been involved in all of the garden and landscape projects undertaken by NA, such as Chiswick House Grounds, Kensington Palace Gardens, Red Cross Gardens, Southwark, and excavation for the Ministry of Culture, France. He has lectured at the University of Madrid on the archaeology of gardens and designed landscapes. He co-directed an evaluation of the 16th century garden of the Castejones Palace, Agreda, Spain, while running a course outlining the principles of Garden Archaeology for the students. He has recently completed a project to relocate the Elizabethan gardens at Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire for English Heritage. For the National Trust Joe has worked on numerous projects forming part of the restoration programme at Stowe Landscape Gardens and has compiled a landscape gazetteer for the grounds of Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire. He has wide ranging knowledge of historic gardens, landscapes and architecture from the late 16th to the 19th centuries. He helped to compile an inventory of the architectural collections at Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire for English Heritage. Joe has completed the RCHME building recording training course at The University of Oxford Department for External Studies.

Ed Taylor BSc

Email : estaylor@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Ed gained a BSc in Archaeology. He worked as a volunteer before joining Tyne and Wear Museums Archaeology Department, where he worked for a year. Ed joined NA in 2000 and has worked on a variety of projects, including the Iron Age settlements of Hinckley, Leicestershire and Pitsford Quarry, Northamptonshire; Iron Age and Roman settlements on the A43 road improvement scheme, the A6 bypass at Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, and Ely Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire; and the medieval monastic cemetery at St James’ Abbey, Northampton as well as urban excavations in Sheffield, Towcester, Northamptonshire and Peterborough. As a supervisor Ed has directed projects in Ely and Swansea, at the prehistoric complex at Maxey Quarry, Cambridgeshire, and Iron Age, Roman and Saxon settlement at Yielden, Bedfordshire. He has also worked at Doncaster, at Drayton Quarry, Chichester, and has excavated a Romano-British settlement and cremation cemetery on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He has also been involved with garden archaeology projects at Battersea Park, London, Southall Manor, Ealing and Eastbury Manor, Barking, the latter for the National Trust. In 2005 he supervised the excavation of an open Iron Age settlement at Milton Keynes, and in 2006 has excavated Bronze Age ring ditches and a pit alignment in advance of mineral extraction near Passenham.

Jim Brown BSc, PGDip, AIFA

Email : jibrown@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Jim gained a BSc in Archaeology in 1998. He completed a fieldwork scholarship in Kenya, Uganda & Tanzania with the British Institute in East Africa in 1999. Returning to the UK, Jim gained his Postgraduate Diploma in Cultural Landscape Management at the University of Wales, Lampeter in 2000. He worked for the Cambridge Archaeological Field Unit and for A. F. Howland & Associates Engineers before joining NA. Jim has been involved with several major landscape projects. These include the A43 Towcester to M40 road improvement scheme in 2000-1, the A34/M4 Chieveley junction improvements in 2003-4, and the Shelford Farm Estate, Canterbury 2003-4, exhibiting a broad range of periods from early Iron Age to the post-medieval. He has also directed work on urban sites in Northampton, Coventry and at the medieval priory in Daventry, Northamptonshire. Jim was made supervisor at NA in April 2003 and has demonstrated a wide range of fieldwork, reporting, desk-based assessment, IT and illustrative skills. He is a member of the NA geophysics team.

Paul Mason BA

Email : pmmason@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Paul gained his BA in Archaeological Studies in 1996. His archaeological career began as a volunteer with various organisations before working as a site assistant for Southampton Archaeology, Warwickshire Museums Field Services, Northamptonshire Archaeology, and Coventry Museums Archaeology Unit. He became a supervisor and assistant project archaeologist on the excavations at St Mary’s Priory for Coventry City Council in 2000-03. Paul rejoined NA in 2004 and has worked on field projects in Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Norfolk and Yorkshire.