ULAS
University of Leicester Archaeological Services

John Thomas BA MA

Project Officer

John has worked as a professional archaeologist since 1986, formerly with Warwickshire Museums Field Archaeology Unit and since 1995, with ULAS. He was awarded a BA in Archaeology from Leicester University in 1998 and an MA in Landscape Studies from Leicester in 2006.

He has experience of a wide range of field and post excavation techniques, and has directed many large-scale excavation projects with a particular expertise on prehistoric and gravel sites. In the Summer of 2000 he directed excavation and recording of the nationally important Early Upper Palaeolithic site at Glaston in Rutland. He has also directed excavation of regionally important sites at Thorney (medieval abbey and Dissolution remains) and Humberstone in Leicester where an extensive area of Iron Age aggregated settlement has been revealed.

John has provided written reports on all aspects of his project work and has published interim articles on work at Glaston and Thorney in Current Archaeology. A full site report on Thorney is due to be published in Medieval Archaeology in 2006. Publications on the work at Glaston and Humberstone are forthcoming. In addition to reports on his site work, John has published two papers based on the results of his research into the introduction and use of pit alignment boundaries in the First Millennium BC.