Research Associate and Project Officer

BA, PhD (Dunelm.) MIFA

Tel: 0116 252 2101

Email: me87@le.ac.uk

Matt studied for a BA degree (1987) and a PhD (1992) in Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Durham. He worked as Project Officer and Site Director for a number of commercial archaeology units – including Albion Archaeology, Cambrian Archaeological Projects and Birmingham University Archaeological Fieldwork Unit. He has carried out a series of urban surveys and directed urban excavations in Bedford, Rugby, Manchester, Wednesbury, Birmingham and elsewhere. Matt arrived at the University of Leicester to join the Wallingford Burh to Borough Research Project in January 2008.

Research Interests

• Themes and projects
• Publications

Selected Recent Publications

Edgeworth M. 2009. 'Linking Urban Townscape with Rural Landscape: Evidence of Animal Transhumance in the River Ivel Valley, Bedfordshire' in Medieval Settlement Research 23 (2008), 22-27.

Edgeworth M. 2009. 'Comparing burhs: a Wallingford-Bedford case-study'. In Keats-Rohan, K. and Roffe, D (eds) The origins of the Borough of Wallingford: archaeological and historical perspectives. BAR British Series 494. Oxford, Archaeopress, pp77-85

Edgeworth M. 2008. 'Excavation of a Romano-British Enclosure Complex at Burton Wold Farm, Burton Latimer' in Northamptonshire Archaeology 35, 27-43

Edgeworth M. 2008. 'The Tempsford Project: an interim report' in South Midlands Archaeology 38, 8-16.

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