We are delighted to announce that Richard Buckley is the winner of this year’s prestigious Archaeologist of the Year award.
Richard Buckley headed University of Leicester Archaeological Services’ international headline-grabbing discovery of Richard III under a Leicester car park. This marks the second time that this project has been recognised by the readers of Current Archaeology, after a record number of votes won the team the Research Excavation of the Year award in 2013.
Richard Buckley worked as a field officer with Leicester Archaeological Unit from 1980 until 1995, when he co-founded University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS). Since then, he has managed fieldwork projects (principally in the East Midlands, specialising in urban sites and historic buildings), including ‘Highcross Leicester’, the largest single fieldwork project ever undertaken in the city, which shed unprecedented light on how Leicester has developed over time.
On receiving the award, Richard Buckley said:
‘I am absolutely thrilled and delighted that the readers of CA voted for me — it is a great honour, and I would like to thank everyone who voted — but all archaeological discoveries are down to a team effort, and I would like to dedicate this award to my colleagues from the Grey Friars Project.’
Below are all the nominees in this category:
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Gill HeyGill is Chief Executive Officer of Oxford Archaeology and regional manager of Oxford Archaeology North, having worked for OA since 1986. She has over 30 years of excavation experience, working on digs spanning a variety of archaeological periods in the UK and overseas, and her research interests include the British Neolithic, and Bronze Age settlements. To read an interview with Gill Hey, published in CA 284, click here. |
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Alex BaylissAlex is Head of Scientific Dating at English Heritage and part-time Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Stirling. For 20 years she has worked with radiocarbon dates and Bayesian statistics to build archaeological chronologies. This led to collaborations on Gathering Time, a project that revolutionised understanding of the Neolithic, and a multidisciplinary study creating a chronological framework for early Anglo-Saxon burial. To read an extract from the article Gathering Time: the second radiocarbon revolution, published in CA 259, click here. |
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Richard BuckleyRichard worked as a field officer with Leicester Archaeological Unit from 1980 until 1995, when he co-founded University of Leicester Archaeological Services. With ULAS, Richard manages fieldwork projects principally in the East Midlands, specialising in urban sites and historic buildings. He was famously Project Manager of the investigation that led to the discovery and identification of Richard III’s remains. To read an extract from the article Reconstructing Richard III: the man behind the myth, published in CA 277, click here. |
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