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The Archaeology of Northamptonshire
1974 was marked by two important events for the archaeology of Northamptonshire.
One was the formation of the Northamptonshire Archaeological Society and the other,
the publication of The Northamptonshire Landscape by John Steane as part of the
series of works edited by W.G. Hoskins entitled The Making of the English Landscape.
Thirty years later the NAS is still going strong and it has decided that a new
account of the county's archaeological record should be published. The new
book, "The Archaeology of Northamptonshire" will be available from November
30th 2004. It has 200 pages with 125 illustrations (B&W and colour). The book
has been edited by Martin Tingle and contains chapters written by a variety of
authors.These include; Sandy Kidd & Greg Phillips (Paleaolithic and Mesolithic),
Andy Chapman (Neolithic and Bronze Age), Sandy Kidd (The First Millenium BC),
Myk Flitcroft & Jeremy Taylor (The Romans) Tony Brown & Glenn Foard (The
Anglo-Saxons), Glenn Foard (Medieval) David Hall (The Post Medieval), Jenny Ballinger
(Industrial Archaeology), and Martin Tingle (The history of Northamptonshire's
archaeology and its future). The book is intended to be accessible to a
wide readership but is referenced and includes a full bibliography so that it
can be used for academic work. THE AUTHORS Jenny Ballinger
Jenny has worked for the curatorial arm of Northamptonshire's Heritage / Historic
Environment Team since graduating in 1993. She has worked in a number of positions
including Technical Assistant, Sites and Monuments Record Assistant, Project Officer
and Senior Conservation Officer. Jenny's background is in Landscape Archaeology
and Architectural History. She developed an interest in the industrial period
during her work on the English Heritage funded Extensive Urban Survey, when she
undertook a survey of 16 industrialised settlements in Northamptonshire. I have
since taken the lead role in the County in promoting the conservation management
and understanding of the historic environment of the industrial period. Her current
role involves promoting and monitoring the recording of historic buildings of
all types and periods, including the industrial period. Tony Brown
Tony Brown was for some years the Staff Tutor in Archaeology in the Department
of Adult Education of the University of Leicester, and before that the Organising
Tutor for Northamptonshire. Retiring in 2001, he is now a University Fellow. His
teaching interests have been in field survey and landscape studies, with particular
reference to the English Midlands, with the recent addition of an interest in
the archaeology of warfare. Andy Chapman
Andy Chapman has spent
most of the past 30 years and is currently a Senior Archaeologist at the County
Unit. Beginning as site supervisor for the Northampton Development Corporation
at the Briar Hill causewayed enclosure in the 1970s, he has subsequently worked
for, the County Council archaeology unit. He has directed numerous excavations
, including a long-running involvement with the work of the Raunds Area Project,
particularly at the major prehistoric monument complex which underlay the deserted
medieval hamlet of West Cotton. His more recent work includes excavations in Northampton
of the medieval town defences, at Green Street, and of the cemetery of St James's
Abbey, at the old Express Lifts site. Glenn Foard
Glenn is currently
a Project Officer working for the Battlefields Trust. Previously he was County
Archaeologist for Northamptonshire. He is a specialist in landscape archaeology
with particular experience in aerial archaeology and field survey, documentary
research and the application of information technology to the mapping and interpretation
of the historic environment and has written extensively on the English Civil War Myk
Flitcroft
Myk's introduction to Roman archaeology began as a volunteer
on excavations at the Lunt Roman Fort near Coventry and later worked in Northamptonshire
on the Raunds Area Project. He then spent 10 years , working as a field archaeologist
in Hertfordshire, London & Norfolk before becoming a curatorial archaeologist
in Coventry & for English Heritage. He returned to Northamptonshire in 1999
to work as the county council's planning archaeologist and he now leads the team
responsible for the management and protection of the county's archaeology and
historic environment. David Hall
David is an Honorary Research
Fellow at Exeter University although he has worked for many years on the English
Heritage Fenland Project and has conducted numerous landscape surveys within Northamptonshire.
He has published extensively on medieval settlement and their open fields and
is also currently the Editor of Northamptonshire Past and Present, the annual
journal of the Northamptonshire Record Society.
Sandy Kidd
Sandy
started his archaeological career in 1985 as an excavator on a Bristol City Museum
job creation scheme. After taking an MA in Archaeology at Nottingham University
he returned to the Bristol area working on several excavations and the Avon County
SMR. In 1991 Sandy was appointed to the post of planning archaeologist at the
Northamptonshire Archaeology Unit taking on the challenge of implementing the
newly issued planning guidance for archaeology at time when both archaeologists
and developers were still coming to terms with the system. During this time Sandy
was involved in initiating and monitoring numerous archaeological projects, many
with an emphasis on his main interest of later prehistory. After eight years in
Northamptonshire Sandy hopped south across the county boundary to become County
Archaeologist for Buckinghamshire, taking on responsibility for rebuilding a service
decimated by cuts. He is now engaged in a wide range of projects in strategic
planning, historic landscape characterisation and public archaeology as well as
taking a leading role in the national Association of Local Government Archaeologists.
Greg Phillips
After graduating from Nottingham and a further
year and a half digging, Greg worked for Northamptonshire County Council in the
curatorial archaeology team (Northamptonshire Heritage), carrying out various
roles within the SMR and in Development Control from 1993 until 2001. He is now
self employed as a GIS and Cartography Consultant. Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy is a Lecturer in Landscape Archaeology at Leicester University. His research
interests centre on rural settlement and social change in Iron Age Britain and
the Roman provinces, and on survey-based archaeological technique. He has conducted
fieldwork in Spain, Portugal, France and Italy as well as in Britain.
Martin Tingle
Martin is a Honorary Research Fellow at The Institute
of Archaeology and Antiquity at Birmingham University as well as being the former
Chair and Editor of the N.A.S. Prior to this he has worked on the landscape archaeology
of Wessex, Devon and Brittany. He is currently working on archaeological projects
in Northamptonshire, Devon and Croatia with a specialist interest in prehistoric
lithics.
The Archaeology of Northamptonshire is currently on sale in
bookshops with a recommended retail price of £21.00 (local discounts may
apply). It is available by post from the NAS at £14.50 plus £2.50
postage for non-members and to NAS members at £12.99 plus £2.50 postage. Please
make cheques made payable to: N.A.S and send them to:
Andy Chapman, Northamptonshire
Archaeology, 2, Bolton House, Wootton Hall Park, Northampton NN4 9BE Tel. 01604
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