People - Staff at Archaeology South-East

Louise RAYNER - BA, MSc

• Assistant Director & Head of Specialist Services, Archaeology South-East

Research Interests
• Prehistoric landscapes of South-East England.
• Early Roman London, particularly pre-Boudican development.
• Prehistoric & Roman ceramics: production, distribution and function.
• Chemical and petrological characterisation of archaeological ceramics.

Professional Skills
• Pottery identification, dating and assessment.
• Pottery analysis and publication.
• Clay object identification, analysis and publication.
• Post-excavation Processing Management.
• Post-Excavation Procedures and Assessment.
• Archaeological Project and Programme Management.
• Project Designs and Training programmes.
• Archaeological Report Editing.

Career Summary
2005 -present - Assistant Director Archaeology South-East, UCL.
2003–2005 - Freelance Ceramic Specialist & Consultant.
2003-2005 - Programme Manager for Archaeology, Birkbeck University of London.
1999 - present - Sessional Lecturer for Faculty of Continuing Education, Birkbeck.
1995-2003 - Senior Archaeologist: Prehistoric & Roman Ceramics Specialist, Museum of London.
1994-1995 - Assistant Archaeological Supervisor (Finds) Buckinghamshire County Museum Archaeological Service.
1994 - Assistant Archaeological supervisor (Finds) English Heritage Central Archaeology Service.

Qualifications
• 2006 MSc Technology & Analysis of Archaeological Materials, Institute of Archaeology, UCL.
• 1994 BA (Hons) Archaeology, University of York.

Membership of Learned Societies and Professional Recognition
• Hon. Treasurer of the Study Group for Roman Pottery.
• Committee Member of the Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group.
• Member of the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society.



Key Projects
West London Landscapes: A Backlog analysis and publication project of prehistoric sites on the West London Gravel terraces (MoLAS/English Heritage).

Western International Market, Prehistoric Ceramics: Assessment and publication of large Bronze Age assemblage associated with cremation cemetery and settlement.



Recent Publications
in prep with Seeley, F, ‘The Roman Pottery’ in C Cowan & L Wheeler, Roman Southwark 5: Settlement and Economy in Roman Southwark, MoLAS Monograph

in prep, ‘The Roman Pottery’, in J Hill and P Rowsome, Roman London and the Walbrook stream crossing: excavations at 1 Poultry and vicinity 1985-96, MoLAS Monograph

in prep with Elsden, N, The Developing Landscape of West London: Settlement, Economy and Environment in the Thames Gravels of the Prehistoric and Roman Periods, MoLAS Monograph

Rayner L, 2006 ‘Prehistoric Pottery’, in C Thomas, R Cowie and J Sidell The Royal Palace, Abbey and town of Westminster on Thorney Island: Archaeological excavations (1991–8) for the London Underground Limited Jubilee Line Extension Project, MoLAS Monograph 22

Rayner, L, 2005 ‘The Prehistoric Pottery’ & ‘The Roman Pottery’ in D Sankey ‘Excavations at Dollis Hill, Brent,’ TLAMAS 54 (2003), 39-58

Rayner, L, 2004 ‘Prehistoric Pottery’, in E Howe & D Lakin, Roman and medieval Cripplegate, City of London: Archaeological excavations 1992-8, MoLAS Monograph 21

Rayner, L & Potter, G, 2003 ‘Early Iron Age Pottery at 137-141 High Street North, East Ham’, London Archaeologist 10 (5): 131-136

Rayner L, with Featherby, R, 2003 ‘The Roman Pottery’, in S Watson An excavation in the western cemetery of Roman London, MoLAS Archaeology Studies Series 7

Sidell, J, Cotton, J, Rayner, L & Wheeler, L 2002 The Topography and Prehistory of North Southwark and Lambeth, MoLAS Monograph 14

Rayner, L & Seeley, F, 2002, ‘The Roman Pottery’ in J Drummond-Murray & P Thompson with C Cowan, Settlement in Roman Southwark: Archaeological excavations (1991-8) for the London Underground Limited Jubilee Line Extension project, MoLAS Monograph 12

Rayner, L, 2002 ‘The prehistoric Pottery’, in N J Elsden Excavations at 25 Cannon Street, City of London, MoLAS Archaeology Studies Series 5

Rayner, L, 2001 ‘The prehistoric Pottery’, in B Watson, T Brigham & T Dyson, London Bridge: 2000 years of a river crossing, MoLAS Monograph 8

Rayner, L 1999 ‘The Pottery’, in E Howe ‘A Romano-British farmstead at St Mary Abbots Hospital, Marloes Road, Kensington’, Trans LAMAS 49 (1998), 26–8