People - Staff at Archaeology South-East

Jim STEVENSON – B.A., A.I.F.A

• Senior Archaeologist
• Acting Project Manager

Research Interests
• Generally, Prehistoric Archaeology and how change is reflected in the archaeological record.
• The Iron Age of Surrey and Kent, particularly transition from unenclosed to enclosed occupation and the changing cultural landscape of the Late Iron Age to Roman-British period.
• Iron Age funary practices and their expression in the landscape.
• The ritualisation of domestic life in the Bronze Age and Iron Age and how the study of the depositional processes informs / disproves this.

Professional Skills
• Project Management: fieldwork
• Fieldwork: Director of urban excavations
• Fieldwork: Director of extensive landscape excavations
• Post-Excavation: compiling large and complex reports / monographs
• Surveying: use of total station

Career Summary
2005 - present - Acting Project Manager / Senior Archaeologist, Archaeology South-East
2002 - 2005 - Field Officer, Archaeology South-East
1996 - 2001 - Archaeologist, Surrey County Archaeological Unit
1995 - 1996 - Supervisor, AC Archaeology
1993 - 1995 - Archaeological Assistant, AC Archaeology

Qualifications
• 1993 - BA – Archaeology, University of Southampton.

Membership of Learned Societies and Professional Recognition
• Associate Member, Institute of Field Archaeologists
• The Prehistoric Society



Key Projects
Brisley Farm, Ashford, Kent: Excavation of a 7.5ha multi-period landscape ranging from the Late Bronze Age to post-medieval periods. The main emphasis being a Late Iron Age funary landscape centred around two inhumations with weapons. For Ward Homes. View Report

Knightrider Street, Maidstone, Kent: Directed evaluation and subsequent excavation of a medieval and post-medieval urban site in the town centre.

Hawk’s Hill House, Leatherhead, Surrey: Directed excavation of mid Iron Age site. For Millgate Homes.

Dymchurch Road, New Romney: Directed excavation of Medieval ‘sea front’ site.

King and Barnes, Horsham: Directed excavation of a medieval and post-medieval stratified urban site.

Christchurch School, Ashford Kent: Directed excavation of a late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age site.

Land Northeast of Horley, Surrey: Directed extensive evaluation of 135 trial trenches

Plus approximately c.80 other evaluations, c.100 watching briefs and several desk-based assessments



Recent Publications
Stevenson, J in press. ‘Excavations at Long Grove Road Epsom, Surrey’, Surrey Archaeological Collections

Stevenson, J in press. ‘Excavations at Knightrider Street, Maidstone, Kent’, Archaeologia Cantiana.