Management and competence standards

The company’s quality standards are maintained by the following key personnel:

General Manager: George Children MA AIFA studied archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge and has worked in archaeology for 23 years, with an extensive record of published work relating to the prehistoric archaeology of Wales and the Marches.

He has been employed in his current position since 2003 and exercises overall technical responsibility for field projects (including excavations, watching briefs and historic landscape assessments), for the drafting of project designs, post-excavation analysis and review documents and the writing and editing of archaeological reports and articles for inclusion in relevant specialist journals.

Research Manager: Stephen Priestley MA studied history at Cambridge before working as a research assistant for Historic Royal Palaces at the Tower of London. He subsequently worked as a researcher for English Heritage on the Windsor Castle Fire Evaluation Project for three years.

From 2000 to 2003, he worked as a research consultant for Cadw: Welsh Historic Monuments undertaking extensive documentary research on the history of various historic properties in Wales and also undertook a research project for British Waterways on the history of Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and the Shropshire Union Canal.

He has worked for Border Archaeology since 2003, researching and writing, amongst others, desk-based assessments, multi-stage assessments and historic landscape assessments for various projects in Wales and the Marches.

Director: The Company was formed in 1997 by Neil Shurety Dip.M.GM.Inst.M who studied business at Wolverhampton Polytechnic and whose role encompasses both the setting & maintenance of standards in conjunction with colleagues and specific issues such as Health & Safety & operational arrangements.