Wessex Archaeology’s multi-disciplinary team includes over 320 staff operating from six regional offices. Our Fieldwork team delivers our mitigation work on the ground, from fieldwalking to intrusive excavation. We are delighted to have made several appointments from within our own experienced team as well as a welcoming a new face to the team, allowing us to continue to deliver the high standard of services and fieldwork that we are recognised for
We are pleased to appoint Bill Moffat as a Project Manager. Bill will bring to the role his extensive experience within the archaeological sector, not only whilst at Wessex Archaeology (on and off since the mid ‘90s), but particularly from the many years he successfully ran his own freelance commercial business. During his career, this experience has included cultivating and maintaining excellent professional relationships with key stakeholders in South and South West England. Bill also joins the management team with valuable experience gained teaching at both Sparsholt and Wiltshire Colleges
We have appointed Lee Newton to a Senior Project Officer role. Since graduating from Lampeter in 1999, Lee has acquired extensive experience throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland, including significant urban experience, and an initial spell with Wessex Archaeology back in 2002. He re-joined Wessex in 2014, and since then has frequently demonstrated his ability to successfully direct large, complex and logistically challenging projects, most recently at Berry Hill Farm, the A303 Stonehenge Tunnel, Western Rail Link to Heathrow, and Down Ampney Airfield
We are also delighted to appoint three Project Officers. Firstly, Rachel Williams – Rachel has been with Wessex Archaeology since 2013, after graduating from Southampton University with an MA in Social Archaeology. She gained valuable experience working as a Geophysicist; experience she brought to Wessex Archaeology when seconded to the Geomatics team in 2013. In 2014, she decided to focus exclusively on fieldwork, and since then has supervised (and often directed) investigations on some major projects, including both the A14 and Wylfa. Most notably, Rachel directs our ongoing works at the New Covent Garden Market site, a project which has been highly praised by the Greater London Archaeological Advisory Service
Alongside Rachel, Pete Capps has also been promoted to Project Officer. Pete graduated from Winchester in 2011, and after gaining considerable experience with PCA, Archaeological Solutions, CAU, Wardell Armstrong and OA, joined Wessex Archaeology in 2013. Since then, Pete has consistently demonstrated his aptitude not just as a field archaeologist, but as a calm, unflappable and extremely competent fieldwork director, including his performance on such projects as the A14, Lyde Road, Bulford, and particularly his role supervising at Larkhill on the ABP scheme
Finally, we are very pleased that amongst a very strong field of internal candidates, we have also appointed a stand-out external Project Officer, Kathryn Brook. Kathryn has been in commercial archaeology since she graduated from Leicester in 2000, initially as a self-employed freelance Archaeologist, and subsequently at Allen Archaeology, PCA and most recently AC Archaeology. She arrives with a wealth of supervisory and post-excavation experience, including over three years as a Senior Supervisor/ Project Officer, and extensive experience producing client reports.