Daniel Paul Bateman

Project Supervisor - Post-excavation

Hailing originally from County Durham, North East England, Daniel studied at Newcastle University, in Newcastle upon Tyne, to earn his BA degree in Ancient History and Archaeology from 2008 to 2011. Whilst there, he trained with the Bamburgh Research Project on their Summer excavations at Bamburgh Castle within the castle walls, working as an Assistant Supervisor from 2008-2012.

Upon completion of his degree, he travelled down to London to work as a Commercial Archaeologist in 2013, excavating many different urban and rural sites in different areas of London and surrounding areas of the South of England for archaeological firms.

In 2014, he started work on an excavation at 100 Minories adjacent to the Tower of London with L – P : Archaeology. Once this excavation was completed, he moved into post-excavation work assisting with the day-to-day implementation and organisation of the company’s post-excavation programme of works, from 2015 to 2019. This included the processing of finds and samples from various sites, working alongside environmental and finds specialists.

During this time, he developed an interest in Clay Tobacco Pipes in through training with Museum of London Archaeology and on-site experience at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and was engaged in various aspects of post-excavation assessment and analysis on a variety of artefact types and materials, including artefact photography and preparation of site archives.

Daniel moved up to Scotland in late 2019, excavating in the field on Scottish sites until he joined AOC in February of 2020, where he is engaged as a Post-Excavation Project Supervisor and is involved in various artefact-based tasks including artefact processing, photography, assessments and analysis as well as archive organisation.

Daniel has extensive fieldwork experience in London, South East, North East England and Scotland. His research interests include: the Romano-British Period in Britain and beyond, Clay Tobacco Pipe manufacture and distribution in the United Kingdom and Post-Medieval Pottery among others.