Our people

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Adam Parsons
Graphics and Digital Media Lead, Lancaster
Graphics Team
Post-Excavation & Research Team

Adam has a BA double honours in Archaeology and History, and has worked at our Lancaster office since 2002 as an Archaeological Illustrator and a core member of the Publications team in the Lancaster Office. He has a wide variety of skills including manual and digital illustration, photography, typesetting, and organising publication material, to the identification and analysis of early medieval artefacts and production of publication text. He has produced a vast array of public facing materials for OA, including a number of archaeological monographs, popular publications, posters, interpretation panels, videos, exhibition designs, leaflets, digital content for the web, teachers packs, and schools resource boxes.  

Adam’s primary area of interest is the early medieval period in Britain, particularly Northern Britain, and he has a particular interest in artefacts of the period and their manufacture. He is the co-author of two of OAs monographs on the early medieval period: 'Shadows in the Sand': A Viking-age cemetery at Cumwhitton, Cumbria, and St Michaels Church, Workington, and has contributed to many others. 

He has also run and been involved with many outreach events for our northern office and external clients, including museum events for Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle Castle, school’s projects, archaeology open days, and podcasts. 

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Anne Stewardson
Illustrator Project Officer
Graphics Team

Anne has over 25 years experience in both academic and commercial archaeology. Starting her archaeological life 1987 (until 1991) at Sutton Hoo, during vacation time, she graduated from Leicester University in 1992 wit BA(Hons) Archaeology, and subsequently worked for Leicestershire County Council Archeological Services, training as a Roman ceramic specialist, until returning to Leicester University to gain her MA Post-Excavation Skills in 1996. It was then that Anne chose to direct her career towards archaeological illustration and graphic design.

Anne now specialises in digital illustration techiniques, having obtained her Btech in Computer Aided Design in 1999, when AutoCad was just being introduced to the archaeological sector. To this end she was an external assessor in AutoCAD for the former Association of Archaeological Illustrators and Surveyors (now the Graphic Archaeological Group for the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists), and has been an Associate member (ACIFA) since 2000.

Prior to joining Oxford Archaeology in 2001, Anne was the Lead Archaeologist and Surveyor for a geotechnical engineering company in East Anglia, providing Heritage Management advice/reports, and ground settlelment monitoring throughout the region.

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Charles Rousseaux
Illustrator Project Officer
Graphics Team

Charles graduated in 2010 from the University of Montpellier (France) with a Licence (BA equivalent) in Archaeology and History of Arts and joined Oxford Archaeology in 2012 as a field archaeologist. 

Since 2015 he have been working with the Graphics department at our Oxford office as an Illustrator. 

Charles’ role includes preparing illustrations for grey literature reports, publications, outreach, and marketing material. The type of work undertaken is varied and include mostly hand and digital drawing of various finds, digital designing of posters, flyers, book covers etc, but also typesetting work for external or internal reports and magazine. The bulk of Charles’ work consists of compiling and preparing illustration for publications and journal articles, and he has recently been trained for video shooting and video editing to create video content for clients and the organisation. 

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David Brown
Illustrator Project Officer
Graphics Team

David has been working in UK commercial Archaeology since 1999 and for Oxford Archaeology since 2004, mainly in fieldwork roles. Most recently, he has have moved from Geomatics to Illustration, at the Cambridge office, producing graphics for technical reports, journals, and other publications. David’s interests include the archaeology of Northwest Europe. 

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Gillian Greer
Illustrator Project Officer
Graphics Team

Gillian joined Oxford Archaeology in 2007, has almost 20 years experience in archaeological illustration, and pioneered her own style of digital finds illustration.

Having graduated in 1995 from Queen's University Belfast with a BSc (Hons) in Archaeology with Palaeoecology, she worked for the Environment and Heritage Service of Northern Ireland (EHSNI) as an archaeological illustrator and finds conservator. Gillian studied graphic design at the London College of Printing in 1999 and began transitioning traditional pen and ink artwork to digital format via Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.

Alongside her artistic skills Gillian has a solid base of technical mapping software such as AutoCad and QGIS. She has created an in-house GIS map of Roman Britain, tailor making Roman landscape maps for each monograph she works on. In 2000 Gillian was awarded full membership of the former Association of Archaeological Illustrators and Surveyors, and is now a member of the CifA at MCifA level.

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Lucy Gane
Illustrator Project Officer
Graphics Team

Lucy has 20 years of experience in professional archaeology. After graduating from the University of Reading in 2002 with a BA (Hons) in Archaeology she started work as field staff. Whilst working in the field Lucy was trained to be a site surveyor, using GPS to map sites and then convert them into drawings with the aid of CAD and GIS. She then took advantage of a secondment in Graphics to develop her illustration skills, which resulted in a permanent move to that department.

As an illustrator Lucy regularly works on creating maps, finds drawings and other illustrations for monographs and journals. She has also produced large format permanent display panels for schools, as well as illustrating and typesetting smaller popular publications. More recently Lucy has received training in videography and has used that to produce and edit in house media. 

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Magdalena Wachnik
Head of Graphics
Graphics Team

Magdalena has an MA in archaeology, with a specialization in the conservation of archaeological finds, which was attained from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. She produced high quality illustrations for this university for 6 years and for nearly two decades for Oxford Archaeology's Oxford Graphics Office.

Her duties cover a wide range of types of finds drawings from many archaeological periods. She has a keen interest in photography. This began with a course in practical photography at Art School which has been extended through a further course at university. Her illustrations and photographs contribute to many OA publications.

Since she become Graphics Office Manager, in addition to regular Archaeological Illustrator duties, Magdalena is supervising the daily work of the graphics team; interfacing with printers, typesetters and project managers to facilitate production of various types of publication; and dealing with printing and copyright issues.

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Maranda Wareham
Illustrator and Digital Media
Graphics Team

Maranda has a BSc (Hons) in Archaeology and Anthropology, and has worked at Oxford Archaeology since 2019. She has a wide variety of skills from field excavation, digital illustration, photography, video production, editing, typesetting, and photogrammetry.  

Maranda’s archaeological interests are quite varied, and include forensic taphonomy, osteoarchaeology, and the archaeology of domestic life and childhood. She began her career at OA as a fresh-faced graduate trainee and has worked on various pre-historic sites across the UK before undertaking filming and outreach content creation. She has liaised with the BBC’s Digging for Britain and local media outlets, as well as commercial clients to create digital content of the amazing sites and artefacts from OA’s various projects.  

Prior to working at Oxford Archaeology, Maranda worked as a real estate agent in her hometown of Houston, Texas whilst maintaining a freelance commercial film and photography business, specialising in product, portrait, editorial, and real estate photography. In her free time, she enjoys horseback riding, travel photography, embroidery, and reading.