• Spencer Carter | Registered Director & Chair, Field Archaeologist, Trainer & Lithics Specialist (London & Teesside)
• Paul Docherty | Director, 3D Imaging & GIS Specialist (Teesside)
• Guy Forster | Director, Field Archaeologist & Trainer (Sedgefield)

Spencer Carter, FSA Scot

BA (Hons) Archaeology (Durham), Proprietor at TimeVista Archaeology and Managing Director of Cleveland Archaeology Trust, a not-for-profit heritage & cultural community organisation.

Spencer is an experienced freelance commercial and community field archaeologist, prehistoric stone tool specialist, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (FSA Scot). He was recently Archaeological Project Officer for Breedon Group’s Black Cat North aggregates quarry, Bedfordshire, as well as being involved in other community and commercial projects in Yorkshire and Northumberland. He is past chair of the Teesside Archaeological Society, former committee member, editor and trustee of Council for British Archaeology Yorkshire, and was on the council of RESCUE: The British Archaeological Trust, as an advocate for our archaeology, heritage-at-risk and the profession. Spencer is trained in health & safety practices.

Paul Docherty

Research student MRes Archaeology (York), MA Computer Animation (Teesside), BA (Hons) Archaeology (Leicester).

Paul is currently researching digital visual storytelling of archaeological sites at the University of York. His background is in engineering and games development but has over the past decade redirected towards archaeology; both digital and experimental. Between 2000 and 2015 he was a Principal Lecturer and the Head of Games and Animation at Teesside University.

Paul specialises in 3D modelling and scanning, particularly Multi-view Stereo Photogrammetry and Structure-from-Motion. His interests mainly revolve around digital reconstructions of historical sites and artefacts and has worked on projects for several documentary channels such as National Geographic, Discovery, History Channel, Channel 5, and the BBC. One such project is Amarna3D, a digital reconstruction of the short-lived capital city of ancient Egypt and birthplace of Tutankhamun. Paul also runs 3D ‘bootcamps’ for the digital heritage sector as well as a course in photogrammetry at the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (SHARP). He is an active member of Teesside Archaeological Society and is regularly involved in fieldwork with local and national research and community projects.

Guy Forster

Durham University Archaeology graduate, Chartered Institute for Archaeologists.

Guy is an experienced field archaeologist, having been a volunteer on many community and academic projects in northern England. He’s conducting his own field-walking around the Sedgefield area in southern Co. Durham, with some impressive finds that include a rare Neolithic stone axe imported from the Lake District, and prehistoric flint artefacts. His interests extend to experimental archaeology such as flint knapping and ceramics, and inducting his young family into all things heritage. Guy has been actively involved at Airy Hill in East Cleveland in 2019 and continues to complete the evaluation field-walking ahead of 2020 community expansion

Advisors

• Dr Stephen Sherlock, Freelance Commercial & Community Archaeologist
• Dr David Petts, Associate Professor, Durham University Archaeology
• Dr Robert Young, Freelance Archaeologist, Mesolithic Specialist
• Dr Jim Innes, Palaeo-botanist and Palynology Expert, Durham University Geography