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Staff & Associates (in preparation)

The following list gives details of both the core staff and associated staff at On Site Archaeology. Resumes of core staff, where available, are included below.

* denotes associate

Graham Bruce. Project Officer

Resume in preparation

Chris Fenton-Thomas. Project Officer

Chris has been active in archaeology since completing his degree at Durham University, since when he has held a variety of fieldwork and academic posts. He joined On Site Archaeology in July of 1999 after completing his PhD at Sheffield University, and is currently one of our Project Officers. Chris supervises field work projects and undertakes desk based assessment reports etc.

Marie-Claire Ferguson. Illustration & Survey

Marie-Claire graduated from Sheffield University in 1995 with a joint honours degree in Archaeology and Landscape Architecture. She has worked for a variety of archaeological units, and has recently been supervising the English Heritage excavations at Whitby Abbey. She joined On Site Archaeology in 1998, where in addition to carrying out field work she is responsible for CAD work and topographic surveys.

Nick Pearson. Director

Qualifications
Llb (Hons), King's College, University of London, 1975
M.A. Anglo-Saxon and Viking Studies, University of Durham, 1979

Current Position
Director, On-Site Archaeology Ltd

Resume
Nick has been active in field archaeology since 1969 and has managed a number of large archaeological projects on the Orkney Isles, and in the City of York whilst Senior Field Officer with the York Archaeological Trust from 1983 until 1991.

During the first half of the 1990s he carried out major archaeological survey and excavation in Southern Africa including evaluation work on the Trans-Kalahari road from Johannesburg in South Africa to Windhoek in Namibia. Whilst in Africa, Nick acquired a reputation as a surveyor of remote areas, and has carried out survey work in both Botswana and Uganda on behalf of the Phuthadikobo Museum, Mochudi, Botswana; the University of Botswana; the National Museum of Botswana, and the Office of the President of Botswana. He has acted as consultant for the Department of Antiquities of the Government of Uganda and the British Institute in Eastern Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Since returning to the UK in 1995 Nick acted as a freelance archaeologist on a number of major capital projects on behalf of Union Railways on the fast track link from London to the Channel Tunnel Terminal, and for Yorkshire Water on a drought relief pipeline through sensitive archaeological areas in the Vale of York.

Nick has been a full member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists since it was formed. Nick established On-Site Archaeology in 1997 in partnership with Caroline Emery. On-Site Archaeology became a limited company during 2000.

Principal Publications
Pearson, N. 1978. The Archaeology of Darlington. Durham University Press.
Pearson, N., Addyman, PVA. & Tweddle, D. 1984. "The Coppergate Helmet" Antiquity .
Pearson, N. 1993. 'Single Context Planning. Its role in excavation and post-excavation procedures in York'. In "Practices of Archaeological Stratigraphy" , Harris and Marley-Brown.
Pearson, N. 1994. "Survey and Excavation at the Late Iron Age Site of Modipe Hill, Kgatleng District, Botswana". Botswana Notes and Records, volume 27 (The Botswana Society).

Dave Pinnock. Survey & Site Assistant

Dave graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2000 with an honours degree in Archaeology and Prehistory. He completed an MA in Landcape Archaeology at Sheffield the following year for which his dissertation was a report on a large lithic assemblage from a wide-ranging fieldwalking project in the Peak District.

He has worked for a variety of archaeological units and first joined On Site Archaeology in 2003. As well as fieldwork he is resposible for topographic survey and is a specialist in querns and grindstones.

Tim Robinson. Site Assistant

Resume in preparation

Duncan Stirk . Archaeologist

Duncan graduated from the University of Calgary in 1994 with a B.Sc. in Plains Archaeology. A move to the UK led to work with a number of archaeological organizations. He joined On Site Archaeology in 2002, where a variety of duties have lately been added to in the form of supervision of local Community Archaeology fieldwork projects. He has also taken leave to run various research projects for English Heritage.

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