Project Staff
Mr Richard Lewis BA MIFA, Senior Projects Manager
Email: lewis@ggat.org.uk
Richard started working for the Trust as a Site Assistant in 2002 and has since worked extensively across South Wales and the Southwest of England. He now coordinates the commercial work undertaken by the Projects Division of the Trust. Richard graduated from Cardiff University and is a Member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists.
Richard is responsible for the management of the Projects Division. His duties include the day-to-day management of the Projects Team and their projects. He is also responsible for assisting with the expansion of the Trust's field of operations and income generation. Richard provides information generated through commercial activities to support other areas of Trust activity, particularly Historic Environment Record development and Heritage Outreach activities, and he has a keen interest in developing programmes of continuous professional training and development.
Richard's interests include the prehistory of South Wales, particularly funerary and ritual practices and their wider landscape setting. He is also interested in experimental archaeology, focused primarily on lithic technologies. During his spare time Richard volunteers for the Young Archaeologist's Club, as well as presenting archaeological talks to schools and local societies.
Mr Richard Roberts BA, Project Manager
Email: rich@ggat.org.uk
Richard Roberts joined GGAT in 1996. He has worked on the archaeological aspects of a wide range of projects, including Torfaen LANDMAP study, the Gwent Levels Wetlands Reserve, Goldcliff, and Mynydd Hiraethog Historic Landscape characterisation for CCW, in addition to Nant Llesg, West Merthyr, and Ffos-y-Fran reclamation schemes in the Merthyr Tydfil area.
Since 2000 he has been involved extensively with the pan-Wales Historic Landscape Characterisation study undertaken for Cadw; producing reports for the Rhondda, Blaenavon and Merthyr Tydfil Historic Landscapes, among others.
His specialised interests are in the archaeology of the early medieval period, though he has considerable experience in the survey, excavation and interpretation of sites of all periods in both upland and lowland areas.
Prior to joining GGAT, he worked for Gwynedd Archaeological Trust in North Wales as a supervisor, where he undertook numerous fieldwork, survey and desk-based projects throughout the area, including surveys carried out on behalf of Cadw ranging from non-conformist chapels on Anglesey to prehistoric settlements and upland survey. He has also worked as an excavator/site assistant for Cadw on a number of large-scale excavations.
Project Officers
Mr Rob Dunning BSc, Project Officer
Email: projects@ggat.org.uk
Rob began working for the Trust as a Project Archaeologist following the completion of his degree in Archaeology from the University of Wales Cardiff in 2002. He worked on a number of large excavations for the Trust, including Ewenny Quarry and the Newport Ship before becoming a Project Officer in 2004.
Rob's role as a Project Officer is to provide a key role in delivering both archaeological products and services to the company's clients. These include consultancy work, watching brief, desk-based assessments (including EIA and ASIDOHL), surveys, field evaluations, excavations and heritage projects (including Cadw projects).
He was recently involved in a large excavation at Cardiff Castle in 2005-06 and is currently occupied by follow-up survey and post-excavation works.
Rob originally trained as an Environmental Biologist, and his previous degree will be utilized in the Trusts' move towards in-house processing of environmental samples and ecofacts recovered during fieldwork.
Miss Rowena Hart BSc MA, Project Officer
Email: projects@ggat.org.uk
Rowena graduated from Cardiff University with BSc (Hons) Archaeology in 2000 and with MA Archaeology in 2001. During her years at university she excavated at sites in Britain, Hungary, Greece and Egypt. Post graduation she was employed by Cardiff University as a Research Assistant between 2001 and 2004 supervising excavations and geophysical survey in Egypt and undertaking associated post-excavation work.
Rowena began working for GGAT as a Project Archaeologist in 2004 and has held her current position of Project Officer since April 2008. Rowena is responsible for the undertaking all categories of projects commissioned by the company's clients. Her duties include the on-site management and full completion of watching briefs, evaluations and excavation along with post-excavation finds work and reporting.
Her primary archaeological interests include the Roman occupation of Britain, including the associated material culture, in particularly Roman glass and glass making. She is responsible for writing in-house specialist glass reports. Additional archaeological skills include topographical/monument surveying, geophysical surveying and is currently teaching herself the ways of CAD. She is a member of the Egyptian Exploration Society for whom she still does some work associated with her previous employment.
Mr Steve Sell BA (Cantab), Project Officer
Email: projects@ggat.org.uk
Steve started working for the Trust shortly after its inception as a Field Officer, involved in excavations and Marginal Land Survey work. In 1978 he became Finds Officer, a post that he held until 1995, when the Finds Department was disbanded. From 1995 to date Steve has worked as a Project Officer in the Contracts, now Projects, Division of the Trust.
Steve's role is to implement proijects including excavation, evaluation and watching brief work, as well as to undertake finds identification as required during the post-excavation stages of project work. Steve also liaises with local metal-detecting clubs and idividual members of the public on behalf of the Portable Antiquities Scheme, and assist in identification, referral and recording of artefacts as part of the scheme.
His special interests are finds-based, principally coins, metalwork and small finds of all periods, and also medieval and later ceramics, clay pipes and glass
Mr Martin Tuck, Project Officer
Email: projects@ggat.org.uk
Martin Tuck originally joined GGAT in 1985, after six years military service, and worked for a year as a site assistant excavating the canabae of Roman Caerleon. In 2001 he rejoined the Trust working as a project assistant and from 2002 held a position on a permanent basis.
He has worked on a number of projects ranging from a prehistoric interrupted enclosure at Ewenny and late Bronze Age sites in Avonmouth and Cardiff, to Roman sites, medieval towns and also assisted with recording and excavation of the medieval ship found at Newport Theatre and Arts Centre. Although not specialising in a particular period he has gained extensive experience as a field archaeologist and has recently carried out work in the wetlands environment of the Severn Estuary.
Prior to joining GGAT on a permanent basis he spent fourteen years in an engineering, mining, and topographic survey company and worked on various construction projects including surveys for the Second Severn Crossing, Mona airfield (RAF), Anglesey and engineering surveys related to Newport Transporter Bridge and the original Severn Bridge. During these years he maintained an active interest in archaeology and worked on many local sites as a volunteer. Currently he is also working on a privately funded excavation near Caerleon.
Assistant Project Officers
Mr Sven Egloff BA MPhil, Assistant Project Officer
Email: projects@ggat.org.uk
Sven studied Archaeology of the Roman Provinces with Pre- and Proto-History at the LMU, Munich, Germany. He completed his MPhil in Aerial Photography and Geophysical Survey at the University of Glasgow in 2002. He then worked as an archaeologist for Pre-Construct Archaeology, London, and for Foundations Archaeology, Swindon. In April 2008, he started working for the Projects Division of the Trust as an Assistant Project Officer. Sven's working experience encompasses projects in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Tunisia, and since 2002, he has worked on numerous commercial projects all over Britain.
Sven's role is to assist in the Trust commercial operations. So far, he has been involved in the redaction of a commercial archaeological desk-based assessment, and is currently working on a review and reassessment of archaeological sites in South Wales.
His special interests include archaeology of trade and cultural exchanges, and aerial photography, remote sensing, topographic survey, and mapping.
Mrs Jane Harris BA, Assistant Project Officer
Email: projects@ggat.org.uk
Mr Andy Sherman BA, Assistant Project Officer
Email: projects@ggat.org.uk
Andy Sherman joined GGAT in 2000 as a Project Assistant before briefly working for the Trust's Curatorial Division as a Development Control Assistant and the Acting SMR Officer.
In 2002 he was promoted to a Senior Project Assistant and in 2005 to Assistant Project Officer. He has worked on a large number of projects from the recording of iron buildings discovered at the Gwent Europark to the surveying of prehistoric monuments on the Black Mountain. During his eight years working with GGAT he has helped excavate a large number of sites ranging from a prehistoric interrupted enclosure at Ewenny, prehistoric occupation scatters at St Brides, Roman sites at Caerleon, Bristol, Usk and Gelligaer, the Newport medieval ship, the Caerleon bridge and the medieval cities of Swansea, Cardiff and Monmouth.
Prior to work for GGAT he worked for a short period of time with the Centre for Wetland Archaeology based at the University of Hull, where he also studied for a post graduate diploma in Wetland Archaeological Science and Management. Although not specialising in a particular period he has developed an interest in wetland archaeology and ancient boat building that he continues to pursue.
Project Archaeologists
Miss Ellie Graham BA, Project Archaeologist
Email: projects@ggat.org.uk
Ellie's first experience of archaeology was when she was still in school, with Aberdeen City Council's Archaeological Unit, and having graduated from the University of Wales, Swansea with a degree in Egyptology and Ancient History, she started volunteering for the Trust in autumn 2006. She was initially taken on under the "Go Wales" scheme, and stayed on as a Project Archaeologist, working on a variety of excavations across southeast Wales, as well as several desk-based projects.
Currently, she works mainly in the historic landscapes department of the Projects Division, and is working on several Cadw-funded research projects, such as Historic Landscape Characterisation, and the Southeast Wales Industrial Ironworks Landscapes Project, which involves a mixture of desk-based research and fieldwork.
Her special interests include the Roman occupation of Britain, and she enjoys outreach work, volunteering as an assistant leader at the Bridgend branch of the CBA's Young Archaeologists Club.