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.
| Directors | Caroline Emery | Site Personnel | Graham Bruce |
| Nick Pearson LlB. MA. MIFA. | Dr Chris Fenton-Thomas | ||
| Artefact Analysis | *Dr Chris Cumberpatch | Berny McCluskey | |
| *Jane Cowgill | Lauren McIntyre | ||
| Dave Pinnock | |||
| Tim Robinson | |||
| Photography | *Jane Ireland | James Stanley | |
| Illustration & Survey | *Marie-Claire Ferguson | ||
| *Guy Hopkinson BSc. MA. MSc. . web | |||
| Sylvia Pearson |
* denotes associate
Graham has been involved in archaeology since the late 1980's, having worked on a number of projects prior to and during studying for a degree at the University of York. Following graduation he worked for a range of academic and commercial organisation on archaeological projects throughout Britain. He spent a year in the mid 1990's working abroad during the reconstruction of Beirut, where he was responsible for the supervision of a large area excavation, through almost 2000 years worth of complex urban stratigraphy. On returning to Britain he joined AOC (Archaeology) Ltd, initially as a supervisor, but rising to Project Officer and finally Senior Project Manager. In autumn 2000 Graham returned to York, joining On-Site Archaeology as a Project Manager to undertake commercial field projects and desk-based assessments across the north of England.
| 2000 - present |
Project Manager, On Site Archaeology |
| 1996 - 2000 |
Supervisor / Project Officer / Senior Project Manager, AOC (Archaeology) Ltd, London |
| 1995 - 1996 |
Supervisor, American University of Beirut |
|
1988 - 1995 |
Various positions on a variety of projects across the UK including Supervisor at the Sutton Hoo Research Project and for York Archaeological Trust |
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 Managers. Chris supervises field work projects and undertakes desk based assessment reports etc.
| July 1999 - present |
Project Manager, On Site Archaeology |
|
1997 - 1999 |
PhD (award recommended October 1999), University of Sheffield "Forgotten Wolds: Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Landscapes on the Yorkshire Chalk". A multi-disciplinary long term landscape history of the central Yorkshire Wolds focusing on settlement patterns, land division and funerary practice during the first millennia BC and AD |
| 1994 - 1997 |
Lecturer in Archaeology, Trinity College, Carmarthen |
| 1993 - 1994 |
Project Officer / Field Training Officer, Dyfed Archaeological Trust / Trinity College Carmarthen |
| 1991 - 1993 |
PhD research, University of Sheffield |
| 1987 - 1990 |
BA Archaeology (1st class Hons), University of Durham |
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 including 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.
| Sept 1998 - present |
Supervisor, On Site Archaeology |
| 1998 |
Surveyor / Supervisor, English Heritage |
| 1997 |
Site Assistant, Northern Archaeological Associates |
| 1997 |
Site Assistant, Wessex Archaeology |
| 1997 |
Site Assistant, On Site Archaeology |
| 1996 - 1997 |
Site Assistant, Wessex Archaeology |
| 1996 |
Site Assistant, York Archaeological Trust |
| 1995 |
Surveyor, British School at Rome, Butrint landscape survey, Albania |
| 1994 |
Site Assistant, Dyfed Archaeological Trust / Trinity College Carmarthen |
| 1994 |
Site Assistant, University of Sheffield |
| 1993 |
Site Assistant, Auvergne Archaeological Survey |
| 1992 - 1995 |
BSc Archaeology & Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield |
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 until he established On-Site Archaeology in 1997 in partnership with Caroline Emery. On-Site Archaeology became a limited company during 2000. Nick has been a full member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists since it was formed.
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 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.
|
2004 - present |
Surveyor / Site Assistant, On Site Archaeology |
|
2004 |
Commercial training and experience as a CAD operative and topographic surveyor |
|
2003 |
Supervisor, Oxford Archaeology (North) |
|
2003 |
Site Assistant, On Site Archaeology |
|
2002 |
Site Assistant, Northamptonshire Archaeology |
|
2001 |
Site Assistant, West Yorkshire Archaeology Services |
|
Pre 2001 |
Copious voluntary experience including university training excavations, fieldwork for the Romische-Germanische Kommision in Bavaria, Post excavation analysis for the British Institute at Athens in Crete, and landscape and topographic survey for the British Institute at Ankara in Central Turkey. |
Resume in preparation
