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Jeremy Freeston - Director, Dragonshead Productions Ltd

 

Jeremy is the Historical and Media Director of the project. His knowledge of the battle of Waterloo is extensive. He is also a film producer and director. He has made several documentaries about the Battle, including Massacre at Waterloo for the highly successful Battlefield Detectives television series.

Tim Sutherland - University of York

 

Tim is the Archaeological Director of the project. His work within Conflict and Battlefield Archaeology includes the excavation of the Towton Mass War Grave in 1996. He has directed a number of high profile battlefield projects, the largest being the Towton Battlefield Project which began in 1997. This was the first successful multidisciplinary approach to systematically recovering and recording material from a medieval battle in Britain. Extensive fieldwork and research on the battle includes the identification and recovery of one of the largest assemblages of medieval arrowheads to be found on a medieval British battlefield. Other successful projects include the Battle of Agincourt, involving an excavation of the official site of mass graves, as well as providing expert guidance on research strategies for battlefield projects on many important battle sites. These include Fulford (1066), Lewes (1264), Evesham (1265), Aljuboratta, Portugal (1385), Shrewsbury (1403), Stoke Field (1487), Mästerby and Visby, Gotland Sweden (1361), Lützen, Germany (1632) and Waterloo (1815). Tim is the lead archaeologist for the successful television documentary series Medieval Dead and is a lecturer in Battlefield Archaeology in the University of York (https://www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/honorary-visiting/tim-sutherland/#research)

Helen Goodchild - University of York

 

Helen is the project's geophysical survey and landscape surveyor. She is based in the University of York.

Dave Halsted

Dave is the Director of Shrewd Ape Media Productions Ltd. He is the graphics genius behind several of the project's surveys. He carried out the Digital Terrrian Survey of the landscape, and structural surveys at Hougoumont.

Maeve Kenny

Maeve is the project's international facilitator, as a fluent French speaker she helped apply for the requisit permissions to survey and excavate in Belgium.

Stephanie Smith

 

Stephanie is the assistant producer at Dragonshead productions Ltd. She helped to arrange and organise the team and travel arrangement for the work at Hougoumont, often at short notice, making sure that everyone was able to focus on their particular aspect of expertise.

GSB Prospection Ltd

 

Finn Pope-Carter and Graeme Attwood. GSB were the geophysical consultants to Time Team for its entire 20 years, talking part in over 200 episodes. Finn and Graeme carried out the large-scale geophysical surveys at Hougoumont, often in terrential rain. Graeme's ancester fought at Waterloo and so this was a significant survey for him to take part in.

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