People - Staff at Archaeology South-East

Greg PRIESTLEY-BELL – A.I.F.A

• Senior Archaeologist, Archaeology South-East

Research Interests
• Archaeology of Bronze Age settlement and landscape in Southern Britain
• Flint technology

Professional Skills
• Direction of archaeological excavations
• Archaeological EDM survey
• Archaeological Project Management
• Desk-based assessment

Career Summary
2003 - present - Field Officer/Senior Archaeologist, South Eastern Archaeological Services/Archaeology South-East
1985 - 2002 - Site Supervisor and Project Manager (Boxgrove Project), Field Archaeology Unit, Institute of Archaeology, London

Qualifications
• ‘A’ levels in English and French

Membership of Learned Societies and Professional Recognition
• Associate of the Institute of Field Archaeologists



Key Projects
Boxgrove Project - Palaeolithic Excavations, W. Sussex: Project manager (Eartham Quarry Project) and site supervisor (English Heritage).

A24 Ashington Bypass, W. Sussex: Director of evaluation and full excavation (West Sussex County Council).

Highstead Quarry, Kent: Director of four phases of watching brief, survey and excavation on multi-period site (Brett Aggregates).

Lydd Quarry, Kent: Director of fourteen phases of watching brief, survey and excavation on multi-period landscape site (Brett Aggregates).

Forest Road, Denmead, Hampshire: Director of evaluation and phased excavation of Iron Age settlement site and Bronze Age burnt mounds (Bovis Homes).




Recent Publications
Priestley-Bell, G. forthcoming ‘The Excavation of Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Remains and a Middle/Late Iron Age Occupation Site at Land to rear of No. 5 Ottways Lane, Ashtead, Surrey’, Surrey Archaeological Collections.

Barber, L. and Priestley-Bell, G. 2006 ‘Medieval Adaptation, Settlement and Economy of a Coastal Wetland: The Evidence from Around Lydd, Romney Marsh, Kent’ (Oxbow Books).

Priestley-Bell, G. 2006 ‘Excavation of a Mesolithic occupation site and a Saxon building to the rear of Upper Bognor Road, Bognor Regis, West Sussex’ Sussex Archaeolgical Collections 144.

Priestley-Bell, G. 2006 ‘Worked Flint’ in Richard James ‘Archaeological Investigations at Middle Stoke, Hoo Peninsula’ Archaeologia Cantiana 126.

Barber, L. and Priestley-Bell, G. 2004 ‘Roman Finds at Holy Trinity Churchyard, Dartford’ Archaeologia Cantiana 124.