After graduating from the University of Sheffield in 1989 with a BA (Hons) in Archaeology and Prehistory, Rachel worked for several commercial units before joining Oxford Archaeology's Cambridge office (then CCC AFU) in 2004 as a Project Officer.  

In 2014 Rachel took up a new role as Post-excavation Editor, focusing on editing and authoring reports, articles and monographs. Notable projects include a Roman small town in Wixoe, Suffolk, a Carmelite friary in Norwich, Anglo-Saxon and medieval settlement in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire and early post-medieval brick kilns in Cringleford, Norfolk. Rachel’s main areas of interest include medieval rural settlement, monastic sites, and urban archaeology. 

Rachel oversees the work of the Graphics team at the Oxford Archaeology Cambridge office and is one of the editors for OA’s inhouse magazine. Rachel is a Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists and continues to be involved with a local history and archaeology group in Tilty, Essex.

Rachel graduated from the University of Durham with a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology and has worked in the North West for 40 years, during that time gaining a wealth of knowledge about the archaeology of the region. She acts as Senior Executive Officer: Research and Publications at the Lancaster office of Oxford Archaeology, in which role she oversees the post-excavation programme from post-excavation assessments through to publications. From its instigation, she has been the Series Editor for the Lancaster Imprints monographs and has overseen the development of the Greater Manchester’s Past Revealed series. She also has an overview of community and research projects undertaken by the office. 

Rachel has a deep commitment to the archaeology of the region, with a specialism in the early medieval period. She acted as period coordinator for this during both the compilation and updating of the North West Regional Archaeological Research Framework, working also as a member of its steering group. She was also a member of the steering group for the Hadrian’s Wall Research Framework, and has acted as a committee member for the last three Hadrian’s Wall Pilgrimages, and the International Limes Congress, held in Newcastle in 2009, as well as being a member of the Hadrian’s Wall Partnership Board Research Delivery Group. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a Past President of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, and Trustee of the Senhouse Museum Trust, as well as being active in other local societies. 

Ruth has worked for Oxford Archaeology since 2001 as a Project Officer (post-excavation). She specialises in the analysis of worked stone objects including the use of petrography. Ruth has applied these skills to the recording of standing buildings, most recently at All Souls College, Oxford. Ruth also works as a CBM specialist and has an interest in fired clay loomweights and spindle whorls. 

Ruth has a degree in Archaeology (1995) and a PhD in Archaeology and Geology (1998) from the University of Reading’s Archaeology Department and Postgraduate Research Institute for Sedimentology (PRIS). She is a Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Ruth has carried out extensive researches querns and millstones as well as other artefacts of worked stone, for example loomweights, whetstones and lamps, which she publishes in local and national journals. Ruth edited the volume “Written in Stone” on prehistoric stone tools (2017). 

Steve spent 20 years with the Winchester Archaeology Unit and directed a number of excavations within the city. He used his experience in the 1990s to draft the Winchester Urban Assessment which developed his GIS skills and later managed the fieldwork unit. After joining Oxford Archaeology in 2004, he supervised two of the largest excavations in Winchester in recent years and was a principal author in their publication. His current role is the assessment, analysis and publication of excavations within the historic centres of Oxford, Ipswich, Southampton, Bristol, London and Stafford, mostly as a principal author. He has also published articles on non-urban sites such as diverse as the Roman villa at Monk Sherborne, Beaker burials at Basingstoke and an Iron Age pit alignment at Brewood, Staffordshire. 

Tim has directed and written up archaeological excavations for Oxford Archaeology for over 30 years. His excavation projects include pipelines, road schemes, urban redevelopment, mineral extraction, housing, and work in modern cemeteries. The largest and most complex of these have been the Abingdon Vineyard Redevelopment, Eton Rowing Course, the A2 Pepperhill to Cobham Road Widening in Kent, and the Rocade Briochine at St Brieuc in Brittany. He has also directed research excavations and surveys built around public participation for the Earth Trust at Little Wittenham in Oxfordshire.

Tim acted as the Highways Agency’s Archaeological Advisor on the A13 Thames Gateway DBFO scheme and for the SW Framework Environmental Consultancy for proposed dualling schemes in Cornwall. He provided the Cultural Heritage contribution to the A2 Pepperhill to Cobham EIA. He has also been consultant to the Vale of White Horse District Council, Eton College, and several developers.

Tim is an experienced publicist of archaeology through open days, exhibitions, popular publications, web pages, public lectures and talks, promotional films, TV and radio. Tim has an MA and BA (Hons) in Classics from the University of Oxford, and is a Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (MCIfA) and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).

Tina is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher on the ‘Rewilding’ Later Prehistory project (https://rewilding.oxfordarchaeology.com/) and specialises in ancient plant remains (archaeobotany). Tina was awarded her PhD in geometric morphometric analysis of wheat grains in 2022, having previously undertaken an environmental archaeology master’s in 2016/7 and worked as an archaeobotanical lab technician in 2018/9, both at the University of Oxford. She started out in the field at Trent and Peak Archaeology in 2013, and later worked as a project officer specialising in environmental sampling/analysis. While particularly interested in prehistoric and early medieval Britain, she has worked on a range of assemblages, including Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in the Near East. Her research interests include the uses of wild plants, diversification and resilience in crop cultivation, open science practices and how archaeology can inform contemporary nature recovery.

Tom graduated with a BA in Ancient History and Archaeology from the University of Liverpool in 2002. Since then he has worked in field archaeology, predominantly in the east of England. As a Project Officer he directed a wide range of fieldwork projects, including the large-scale excavations at Clay Farm, Cambridge and infrastructure projects such as the Bury St Edmunds to Thetford Anglian Water Pipeline. His main research interest lies in landscape archaeology, particularly how landscapes developed and changed during prehistory.

Since 2015 Tom has been a Senior Project Manager, initially in fieldwork, overseeing several large excavations in East Anglia including the Norwich NDR road scheme, and is now part of the post-excavation team. In addition to his role at the Cambridge office of Oxford Archaeology, Tom has excavated in Israel and Egypt and has been involved long term with the Blick Mead research project, a Mesolithic site near Stonehenge. Tom is also an Associate of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (ACIfA).