About

I'm an archaeologist with a broad range of experience in academic and professional heritage. My PhD was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and was awarded by the University of Bristol in 2021. I am a Visiting Fellow at the Royal Agricultural University, an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and previously served as Honorary Treasurer of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology. I am involved in a range of projects including at the medieval palace of Clarendon, near Salisbury, and can be found occasionally looking for Romans with good friends. With professional experience in community heritage, funding, and heritage data, I also have training in palaeography, GIS, and a postgraduate certificate in Environmental Impact Assessment. I've produced research for articles, books, and podcasts.

My personal research interests are in landscape, environmental, and animal history/archaeology - historic parks, hunting landscapes, country houses, woodlands, animal sports, and the relationship between humans and the wild. I am as much a fan of spending days in the archive with 18th-century household accounts as I am in a trench. More generally though, I am simply interested in the legacy of humans in the world, and how it impacts us now and in the future.

I live not too far from when I grew up, on the edge of Salisbury Plain in the south of England, with a small menagerie of children and beasts.