London Office Management

Gary Brown BA (Hons) MIFA
Managing Director
Telephone: 0207 732 3925

Gary Brown is the Managing Director of Pre-Construct Archaeology which he founded in September 1993. Gary is a career archaeologist having participated on excavations since his school days. He completed a degree in Ancient History and Archaeology at Manchester University which helped to nurture his interest in Roman archaeology. Unlike his early years, post-graduation Gary has been relatively settled. He spent 2.5 years as a Field Officer in Lincolnshire before moving to London in 1985 where he spent most of his time digging, or writing about digging, in the City of London. He has become more varied in his archaeological interests latterly and is equally at home being involved with prehistoric to post-medieval sites as he is with Roman. As well as being a member of the usual archaeological societies he is a Committee Member of the Standing Conference of Archaeological Unit Managers (SCAUM) and the Standing Conference of London Archaeology (SCOLA). Gary is, for his sins, a follower of Tottenham Hotspur and Leicester Tigers RFC.

Peter Moore BA (Hons)
Senior Project Manager & Director
Telephone: 0207 732 3925

Peter Moore has been in archaeology for 25 years, of which the last 15 have been based in London and SE England. He spent 5 years as a project manager in Newham Museum Service, where he was responsible for advising the London Borough of Waltham Forest and for undertaking, the now published, major archaeological investigations at English Heritage's Tilbury Fort. He then joined PCA as a project manager in 1996 and runs a wide variety of projects from negotiation through fieldwork to publication, across Southern England, Wales and currently Northern Ireland. His projects at PCA have included some of the most interesting and complex projects of recent years, including the Seaboard Depot Mesolithic site in Guildford, the Shadwell Roman bath complex in Tower Hamlets, Southwark Cathedral's Millennium Project, and, as co-director, the Roman temple complex at Tabard Square in Southwark. He has a degree in archaeology from Queens University Belfast and has excavated widely across Europe and the Middle East, most recently in the Persian Gulf, Turkey and Cyprus.

Chris Mayo BA (Hons)
Senior Project Manager
Telephone: 0207 732 3925

Biography coming soon™...

Tim Bradley MA BSc (Hons)
Senior Project Manager
Telephone: 0207 732 3925

Biography coming soon™...

Helen Hawkins MA BA (Hons)
Senior Project Manager
Telephone: 0207 732 3925

Helen has worked in archaeology for eight years. She spent four years as a field archaeologist and site supervisor with PCA, supervising sites in London, Manchester and Darlington. Helen then joined a large engineering company as an Archaeological Consultant where she specialised in Environmental Statements and design of archaeological mitigation schemes. She provided archaeological advice for road schemes, sewage treatment works, pipelines and large scale regeneration projects. Helen rejoined PCA in October 2007 as a project manager, responsible for designing and managing fieldwork projects, Cultural Heritage Environmental Statements and client liaison.

Josephine Brown BA (Hons)
Graphics Department Manager & Director
Telephone: 0207 732 7651

Josephine has worked in archaeology since 1986, as a field archaeologist, site supervisor and draughtsperson. She worked for 12 years at the DUA/MoLAS, where she helped develop the use of computer graphics and was instrumental in setting up a GIS. Since 1998 Josephine has been Manager of the PCA Graphics Section: she is also a Company Director. She is responsible for managing all graphical output, from site reports through to publications and displays, and has in depth experience of a wide range of project types, including major excavations, standing building surveys, heritage studies and environmental impact assessments.

Frank Meddens Ph.D BA (Hons) FSA MIFA
Post-Excavation Manager & Director
Telephone: 0207 639 9091

Frank Meddens has completed a BA and Ph.D at the Institute of archaeology of the University of London, he is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists, a Research Fellow at the Geography Department of Royal Holloway and the Institute of Andean Studies in Berkeley.
He has published extensively on British archaeology, including papers on Bronze Age and Roman remains, Medieval and Post Medieval ceramics as well as Andean prehistory.
Frank has been responsible for the management of the Post-excavation aspects of Pre-Construct Archaeology's operations since 1997. He ensures that the archaeological archives when they come off site are appropriately assessed and where necessary further analysed and taken forward to publication. He is also responsible for ensuring that the finds and records are transferred to the appropriate museum services where they can be further researched or put on display.

Jon Butler BA (Hons) Oxon
Post Excavation Manager
Telephone: 0207 7639 9091

Jon has over 17 years of archaeological experience in London and Germany and has been with PCA for over 8 years as a supervisor and then project manager since 2001. He started his archaeological career at the Museum of London, 1987-1991, before supervising a series of large excavations in Cologne. He has managed large scale projects in both London and outside including, Prices Candle Factory, The Royal Arsenal, Moor House, Shoeburyness Garrison and the Harnham Relief Road, Wiltshire. He is the author of several publications including two forthcoming PCA monographs.

Märit Gaimster Ph.D FSA MIFA
Finds Department Manager & Finds Specialist
Telephone: 0207 639 9091

Märit has been working since 1997 for PCA, where she is currently the finds specialist of medieval and early modern metal and small finds. She is an established specialist in early medieval metalwork and coins with numerous articles in major national and international journals and conference volumes. Her work includes exhibitions, as academic advisor and contributor to "Roman Reflections in Scandinavia", Malmö Museums, Sweden 1996-97, and curator of "Weapons and Warriors", the Sutton Hoo Visitor's Centre, Woodbridge 2002. Märit is also a regular teacher and lecturer in medieval archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London. Since 1997 she is compiler and editor of the section "Medieval Britain and Ireland" in the journal Medieval Archaeology and, since 1998, assistant editor of The London Archaeologist.