Our Team Of Experts

Our Senior Managers have worked together for over 15 years, providing a highly efficient, stable and professional management team.

Dr Owain Connors

Dr Owain Connors

Owain studied Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Exeter followed by postgraduate research incorporating the use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) to analyse patterns of Anglo-Norman lordship in post-Conquest Monmouthshire/Gwent.

Owain joined Border in 2014 and, as Manager: Archaeological Research and GIS Services – Leominster he researches and compiles Archaeological Desk-Based Assessments and provides research assistance and landscape analysis, as well as digital illustration support for larger projects.

Owain’s research interests include landscape archaeology, medieval archaeology (particularly that of Wales and The Marches), the impact of human society upon the historic landscape and the application of GIS programmes in the recording, visualisation and analysis of archaeological data. He has presented papers at national and international research conferences.

MA PhD MCIfA Manager: Archaeological Research and GIS Services - Leominster

Rachel English BA MA MSc ACIfA Senior Reports Manager - London

Lyndsey Bromage BSc (Hons) Senior Site Superviser

Heather Dontenville BA (Hons) Environmental Science Assistant

George Children MA PGCE MCIfA Director: Quality and Compliance

Stephen Priestley MA MCIfA Director: Research

Janice McLeish MA (Hons) ACIfA Director: Post-Excavation Services

Lyndsey Clark BSc (Hons) MCIfA Director: Archaeological Operations and Reporting

Amy Bunce BSc (Hons) MA MCIfA Director: UK Operations & Palaeoenvironmental Science

Kate Smith MA ACIfA Director: Performance Delivery

Konstantinos Papagiannakis BA (Hons) MA ACIfA Project Director: Tickford Fields

Holly Litherland-Forrest BA (Hons) Senior Manager: Archaeological Illustration and Digital Processing

Katherine Crooks BA PGCE Pottery Specialist

Craig S. Lathwell BSc ACIfA Manager: Environmental Science

Emma Hardy MA Archivist

Stuart Forsythe BSc (Hons) Manager: Surveying / UAV Drone Operator

Robbie Spacey BA (Hons) MA PCIfA Environmental Science Assistant

Peter Rose BA (Hons) Environmental Supervisor

Andrew Stirling Brown Environmental Science Assistant

James Brown BSc (Hons) MRes Archaeological Illustrator

Irma Bernardus Office Administrator

Shaun Higgins PCIfA Geomatics Technician

David Starley HND BSc PhD Archaeometallurgy Specialist

Felicity Wild Samian Ware Specialist

Rebecca Devaney BA Hons MA ACIfA Lithics Analyst

Rob Perrin A. M.Litt. MCIfA. FSA Iron Age and Roman Pottery Specialist

Quita Mould BA (Hons) MA Archaeological Metal and Leatherwork Specialist

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