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Portrait of Steve Rowland
Stephen Rowland
Senior Project Manager
Field Team

After graduating from York University in 1999 with a BSc in Archaeology and an MSc in Human Palaeoecology, Steve worked mainly in environmental archaeology. In 2005 he joined Oxford Archaeology's Lancaster office, and has managed scores of projects, from backyard watching briefs to major infrastructure, from the Mesolithic to the modern period, and from tender to archive, through fieldwork, assessment, analysis, and publication. Particularly significant projects include post-medieval burial grounds in Hull, Swinton, South Shields, and Darwen, pipelines in East Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire, and the North West, road schemes in East Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cumbria, and a community excavation within the Roman settlement at Maryport, Cumbria.

Portrait of Steve Lawrence
Steve Lawrence
Senior Project Manager
Field Team

Steve has experience at many levels of fieldwork, having been employed in professional archaeology since 1994. Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, Steve was responsible for the field direction of excavations of several large late Iron Age and Roman settlements. These include two large rural Roman ‘small towns’ and a villa complex. Each project was completed over periods of several months with large field teams, and included significant volunteer involvement that had to be managed as part of the excavations. Following fieldwork, Steve had a role in the analysis and publication of each site, and was the lead author for the Higham Ferrers and Thurnham Villa monographs.

Steve also has a wide range of project management experience, with notable large projects being the investigation of an important copper works at Swansea, carriage widening around the M25, and the ongoing excavations at Great Western Park, Didcot. Each of these have provided challenging programmes, deadlines, excavation conditions and archaeological remains, which have been successfully managed to provide project delivery to the clients.

Portrait of Steven Graham
Steven Graham
Project Officer
Field Team

Steve has worked in commercial archaeology since graduating with a BA in Archaeology from the University of Birmingham in 2000. Steve has previously worked for archaeological units such as Birmingham Archaeology, Wessex Archaeology and Pre-Construct Archaeology (PCA) before joining Oxford Archaeology (then CCC AFU) in 2002. Steve has worked extensively in London, the Midlands, Cambridgeshire and East Anglia on a wide variety of site types in both urban and rural locations. In his current role as a Field Project Officer, he oversees excavations on site along with post-excavation work and report writing. Despite all the years of being frozen, scorched or soaked, Steve still enjoys (along with cheesy 80s tunes!) getting covered in mud with field work and takes pleasure in wielding a mattock on large features. Steve is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Archaeologists (ACIfA). 

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Stuart Foreman
Senior Project Manager
Field Team

Stuart graduated from Durham University in 1990 with a  BA (Hons) in Archaeology and Anthropology. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Field Archaeologists (MCIfA) with 33 years professional experience. He joined Oxford Archaeology in 1997 after an early career as a field archaeologist in Essex, Cumbria and elsewhere in the UK. 

His range of experience includes environmental impact assessments, field surveys, evaluations, excavations and building recording. He has extensive practical experience of designing mitigation and preservation schemes, including codes of construction practice. He is particularly experienced in managing archaeological fieldwork and post-excavation projects on major infrastructure schemes, such as Oxford Archaeology's commitment to High Speed 1 and 2, the A30 Bodmin to Indian Queens Roadscheme, London Gateway Port in the Thames Estuary and the Hinkley Point C Connection Project. Since 2014 he has provided curatorial advice to the Government of Jersey Infrastructure, Housing and Environment team as part of a standing advisory contract.

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Stuart Ladd
Project Officer
Field Team

Stuart has worked as a professional archaeologist since 2009, and joined Oxford Archaeology in 2011. He has an MA in Landscape Archaeology from the University of Bristol, and also a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from Oxford University.

As a Project Officer, Stuart runs larger evaluations and excavations from project setup, through fieldwork and into post-excavation write-up. He also undertakes GPS surveys (including earthworks) and graphics work, including photogrammetric production of 3D models. Some of his major projects include excavation of a Saxon cemetery in Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, Middle and Late Saxon settlement at Trumpington, Cambridge, and excavations on a prehistoric landscape at Melbourn, South Cambridgeshire.

Stuart is a Practitioner with the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (PCIfA).


 

Timothy Lewis
Timothy Lewis
Project Officer
Field Team
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Toby Knight
Project Officer
Field Team

Toby graduated from the University of Leicester in 2007, and has since worked for various commercial archaeological units, predominantly in East Anglia. He joined Oxford Archaeology in 2013 and his current role sees him writing reports for sites he ran in Suffolk, Essex and Norfolk. His archaeological interests are broad but he mainly focuses on the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods.

Portrait of Anne Byard
Anni Byard
Small Finds Project Officer
Finds Team

Anni graduated with a BA (Hons) in Archaeology from the University of Liverpool in 2002 then spent several years in commercial archaeology as a field supervisor and project officer on large linear projects across southern Britain. In 2008, she joined the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme as Finds Liaison Officer for Oxfordshire and West Berkshire, during which time she recorded over 17,000 mostly metal artefacts and completed an MSc in Landscape Archaeology at the University of Oxford. 

Anni left the PAS in 2019 to undertake a PhD with the University of Leicester and the Ashmolean Museum, investigating the Iron Age to Roman transition in Britain through coin hoarding. A Project Officer for Oxford Archaeology since 2020, Anni specialises in metalwork and coins of all periods and has contributed to many reports and publications spanning the Bronze Age to post-medieval periods. 

Anni is a Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (MCIfA).