About

I am a freelance professional historic buildings archaeologist with over 40 years experience in Essex and its surrounding counties.  I have produced over 800 peer reviewed Level 2 and Level 3 reports.

I have a Master of Studies Degree in Professional Archaeology (Oxford), a Post Grad Diploma in Field Archaeology (Oxford), a BSc in Aero Engineering (Kingston upon Thames) and an HND in Archaeological Illustration (Swindon College of Art).

I am listed on Essex, Herts and Suffolk County Council’s lists of approved service providers. Prior to becoming freelance in May 2007, I worked in the Archaeology, Historic Buildings and Urban Design Sections of ECC for 16 years.

I specialise in recording timber-framed and other historic buildings, producing descriptions and Analysis Reports, Impact Analysis and Justification Reports and Written Schemes of Investigation for Watching Briefs on small works. I also carry out Watching Briefs and Trial Trenching on small excavations. I undertake Decay Testing Surveys using a Sibert Decay Testing Drill. I work on around 85 peer reviewed projects each year.

I also offer digitally rectified photography for recording historic fabric to a level accepted by Heritage England and other government bodies. This is a system I devised myself using Photoshop CS to rectify high quality digital photographs from a Canon SLR. Although based in Essex, I work in regularly in Suffolk, Hertfordshire, London, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire, as well as occasionally as far afield as Cornwall, Hampshire, Leicestershire and Norfolk.