ULAS
University of Leicester Archaeological Services

Dr Patrick Clay BA PhD FSA MIFA

Director

After gaining considerable archaeological experience on a wide variety of sites since graduating in 1973, Patrick Clay was appointed as a Field Officer with Leicestershire Archaeological Unit in 1978 and Project Manager in 1990.  He was joint founder of ULAS in 1995 where he is a Director.  He has directed numerous projects including excavations of round barrows and Iron Age settlements.  He has published over twenty archaeological reports, his particular interest being prehistoric and alluvial archaeology, and has completed doctoral research into prehistoric settlement and land-use in the East Midlands.  He has also published small finds reports and is a founder member of the Roman Finds Group.  Since 1990 he has managed over 300 archaeological projects including major fieldwork programmes in advance of the A46 Leicester Western Bypass, long distance pipeline projects in Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Rutland, gravel and opencast coal extraction in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Warwickshire. He has acted as a consultant for various organisations including RJB Mining (UK) Ltd, Scottish Power, Hallam Land Management and White Young Green. These have included the major road improvements to the N18-N19 in the Shannon – Ennis area, Co Clare, Eire and providing Proofs of Evidence for a Public Inquiry into a major railfrieght distribution centre at Alconbury Airfield in Cambridgeshire. Patrick is currently Vice Chair (standards) of the Institute for Archaeologists

pnc3@le.ac.uk