team northlight

Ally is an experienced field archaeologist who has practiced across the UK and in Iceland. He has particular skills in evaluation and excavation, having successfully delivered a range of projects. He has experience of the archaeology of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland having worked on the Strathnaver Province Archaeology Project and the Dun Eistean Archaeology Project. He has excavated and published on a number of Neolithic sites in Scotland, and presented to the Neolithic Studies Group. He is currently directing the excavation of a significant Neolithic site, including timber circles and possible house structures.

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)7432 694182
• email: [email protected]

Sharon is a geoarchaeologist, with a BA in Archaeology and an MSc in Geoarchaeology from the University of Reading. She carries out a range of environmental analyses for Northlight Heritage, the YAT Group and external clients. These include the analysis of soil micromorphology and geochemical signatures, core stratigraphy descriptions, the extraction and analysis of pollen, and the identification of plant macrofossils and land molluscs. Sharon also provides advice in the field on sampling strategies and undertakes auger surveys for the entire YAT group.

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)7506 920392
• email: [email protected]

Katy is currently on a placement in Community Archaeology with Northlight Heritage, funded by the Council for British Archaeology. She is working with community groups and liaising closely with volunteers on several exciting projects, including Raising the Bar, the Selkirk Castle Community Archaeology Project and Hidden Heritage of a Landscape. She has also been part of the team carrying out consultation with local heritage groups and designing community projects for the Inner Forth Landscape Initiative. Katy holds an MA (Hons) in Archaeology and German from the University of Glasgow, and previously spent three years as Community Ranger at Holyrood Park for Historic Scotland. She is also Volunteer Branch Leader with Edinburgh Young Archaeologists Club.

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)07908 211619
• email: [email protected]

Charlotte’s first degree was in Archaeology and Heritage Management, after which she practiced in France, Ireland and across the UK. She has expertise in survey using total stations, differential GPS and terrestrial laser scanners, for measured topographic and 3D standing building surveys, to produce high quality illustrations and visualisations. She recently imaged and modelled four archaeological sites under threat from coastal erosion; this involved mapping coastal change from 1881 to 2010 using laser scanner techniques and post-processing datasets against historical maps, Lidar datasets and RTK-GPS. . She is a Graduate member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society and the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (ICES) .

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)7432 694175
• email: [email protected]

Clark is responsible for managing artefacts at the Dickson Laboratory as they come in from excavations, including administering first aid for finds, logging them and managing their storage. He also carries out flotation and sorting of soil samples and retents, fabricates kubiena tins for micromorphological sampling, keeps our flotation and field equipment in good working order and provides general technical support. He holds a BA (Hons) in Archaeology from the University of Glasgow and will complete his masters in material culture in 2014.

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)07432 694177
• email: [email protected]

Dave is an experienced field archaeologist who has worked across the UK and in Libya, Jordan and Greece. He has particular expertise in heritage assessment through coastal zone survey and producing cultural heritage chapters for Environmental Impact Assessments. This has led him to undertake major programmes of walkover survey, one project requiring 440 kilometres of corridor to be assessed. He also has skills in forestry archaeology, for example having trained and collaborated with local volunteers on projects such as Lochan Taynish charcoal burning platform and Strathmashie Forest Community Heritage Project. Dave is currently coordinating the archaeological mitigation on a major infrastructure project in Scotland.

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)7432 694184
• email: [email protected]

Heather is a highly experienced archaeologist who has practiced across the UK and in Italy, France, Peru and Jordan. She has expertise in Medieval archaeology, with a PhD on Medieval Rural Settlement: A case study of Mid Argyll, Scotland. She has directed major projects resulting in publications such as Excavations at St Ethernan's Monastery, Isle of May, Fife 1992-1997 and A Fragmented Masterpiece: Recovering the biography of the Hilton of Cadboll Pictish cross-slab excavations at Hilton of Cadboll chapel, Highland from 1998 – 2003. Most recently, Heather was volunteer liaison officer for the High Morlaggan Community Archaeology Project. Heather also directed the Castle Craig excavations, which are part of the University of Glasgow's Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot (SERF) project .

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)7432 694185
• email: [email protected]

Olivia is a highly experienced heritage professional with a wide range of experience and expertise in developer-funded and research archaeology. She co-directed and managed the archaeological mitigation on the upgrade of the A1, resulting in the monograph The Lands of Ancient Lothian and has most recently co-authored Winds of Change, a monograph on St Kilda World Heritage Site. She has a long-held commitment to community engagement and training in the field, having directed the Shetland Community Archaeology Project excavations (2004-7), the Strathnaver Province Archaeology Project (2004-present) and Aberdeen University’s archaeological field school (1997-2001). She holds a PhD on multi-period landscapes of Highland Scotland and, as an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, is active in research. She is especially interested in the historical texture of landscapes and is developing initiatives to explore and explain chronological depth on a landscape scale in areas of Scotland and in France, where she is currently based.

Contact:
• tel:+44 (0)845 901 1142
• email: [email protected]

Alan is a highly experienced heritage consultant and former director of Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division (GUARD). He has been responsible for planning and managing complex major heritage projects and regularly assists clients in the development process. He has acted as an expert witness in Public Inquiries, and in the preparation of evidence for them, across the United Kingdom. Alan has lectured in archaeology for over 20 years at both Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities and is also active in research with a specialism in Roman archaeology.

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)7432 694173
• email: [email protected]

Gavin is a highly experienced heritage professional with a specialism in linear route and landscape scale projects. Key projects include managing the production of the Cultural Heritage chapter for one of the largest EIAs in Britain, co-directing and managing the archaeological mitigation on the upgrade of the A1 (resulting in the monograph The Lands of Ancient Lothian), and co-directing on the Ben Lawers Historic Landscape Project. Gavin recently contributed to an inter-disciplinary project producing a development environment framework tool to balance ecological, cultural heritage, landscape and green-space issues. As Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, he is active in research and is collaborating on the RSE-funded workshop series Transforming practice: inter-disciplinary research into the philosophies, methods and impacts of the ways in which we value landscape.

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)7432 694172
• email: [email protected]

Jennifer is a leading authority on palaeo-environmental analysis, with particular expertise in carbonised and waterlogged plant remains: her PhD was an archaeobotanical investigation of Oakbank crannog, a prehistoric lake dwelling in Loch Tay, the Scottish Highlands. She has analysed, reported and published on several hundred palaeo-environmental assemblages from across the UK and internationally. She is currently developing the range of environmental services available at Northlight Heritage’s Dickson Laboratory for Bio-Archaeology, which can now offer clients a ‘cradle to grave’ service, from sample processing and environmental post excavation analysis.

Jennifer is also a highly experienced forensic archaeologist and works with police forces across the UK. She is viewed by the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) as a highly recommended practitioner in the fields of excavation and problematic body recovery, grid search, interpretation of environmental evidence and stomach contents analysis. Jennifer was recently awarded a Director’s Commendation from North Yorkshire Police for her work on stomach contents analysis, for which she is one of the top specialists in the UK. She has given evidence as an expert witness on numerous occasions under Crown and High Court jurisprudence and is an assessor for the Institute for Archaeologists Expert Panel for Forensic Archaeology. Jennifer also helped write the Professional Standards in Forensics Archaeology guidelines for the Home Office.

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)7776 237401
or +44 (0)7432 694176
• email: [email protected]

Ingrid has significant experience of outreach and community engagement, and spent three years as Training Director for Shetland Community Archaeology Project. She wrote four synthetic regional histories for the Regional Framework for Local History and Archaeology series for Glasgow Museums. Ingrid also has expertise in the application of IT in archaeology and cultural heritage and is industry standard proficient in a range of illustration, desktop publishing, web development and GIS software packages. She has been responsible for the design, build and management of database management systems and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for large-scale complex projects. She has designed, developed and maintained project and company websites including The Govan Stones, Scottish Archaeological Forum (and this one).

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)7432 694183
• email: [email protected]

Ruth is training with us in environmental post-excavation analysis, thanks to the Institute for Archaeologists workplace learning bursary scheme. She holds a BA in Archaeology from the University of Manchester and an MSc in Bioarchaeology from the University of York, and her specific focus is human and animal osteology. Her undergraduate dissertation examined the osteology of women’s health in the early modern period, and her masters work studied the use of proteomics to identify species of fragmented bone from Mesolithic Scotland. Ruth has analysed various bone assemblages including York Minster, Ravenspark Hospital in Irvine, Clifton Green and others for Northlight and YAT. Before joining us, she was part of York Archaeological Trust’s Attractions team.

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)7432 694174
• email: [email protected]