
Ed Danaher
BSc (Hons), MIAI MCIfA
Director and Principal Archaeologist
Ed is the Director of Archaeological Management Solutions, which specialises in providing a complete archaeological management service from project inception through planning, procurement, contractual operations to close out.
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Experience
Ed is a highly experienced and accomplished archaeologist and project manager. He has over 20 years’ experience working on large-scale infrastructural projects throughout Ireland and Britain, including all stages from archaeological assessment and design of fieldwork strategies to management of archaeological fieldwork.
Expertise
As a site director, he has managed many large-scale archaeological projects on behalf of archaeological contractors. He has carried out over 90 archaeological assessments and excavations and written reports for each, and has been involved in some of the largest excavations undertaken in Ireland. He also has extensive publication experience including a book entitled Monumental Beginnings, the Archaeology of the N4 Sligo Inner Relief Road.
Other Professional Interests
Ed also has extensive experience providing archaeological technical advice across a wide range of projects on behalf of clients including government and semi-state bodies, local authorities, engineering consultancies, and private developers. His provision of robust management and his ability to provide cost- and time-effective solutions have ensured successful outcomes.
He currently acts as Transport Scotland’s Historic Environment Advisor on all of their Trunk Road Projects, is the appointed Office of Public Works Project Archaeologist on many of their flood relief schemes, and currently advises numerous engineering consultancies on the procurement and management of the archaeological components of their infrastructural projects.

Fintan Walsh
BSc (Hons), MIAI MCIfA
Excavation Manager
Fintan Walsh has over 20 years’ experience in the commercial archaeology sector and in this time has undertaken over 160 licensed excavations, testing exercises and monitoring briefs.
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Experience
Fintan specialises in project management, report and publication production, editing and post-excavation management. He has project managed numerous large-scale archaeological excavations and projects throughout Ireland with teams in excess of 70 field archaeologists. Most recently these projects have included the N69 Listowel Bypass, and the N70, N72 and N86 Road Projects in Co. Kerry. Other major road schemes include the M7 Naas–Newbridge Bypass Upgrade, M7 Osberstown Interchange in Co. Kildare and the A31 Magherafelt Bypass in Co Derry.
Expertise
On these schemes, Fintan managed all aspects of archaeological fieldwork, Health and Safety (PSCS), programming of site works, quality control, client liaison and post-excavation. He has widely published his work and has presented the results of this work at numerous conferences. He is a full member of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland (MIAI) and the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (MCIfA).

Bryn Coldrick
BA (Hons), PgCert, MA
Quality Manager
Bryn Coldrick is an experienced heritage consultant and qualified local historian with undergraduate qualifications in history and heritage studies, and postgraduate qualifications in local history and social science research methods.
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Experience
He has worked as a heritage consultant in Ireland and Australia for almost 20 years, and has wide experience in desktop research, impact assessment, report writing, community consultation, proofreading and editing. Between 1999 and 2003, he worked as an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Archaeologist with Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd and Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd (as EIA Manager), undertaking around 170 impact assessments for residential, commercial and infrastructure projects. He was also co-author of a nationwide study for the Irish Government examining the impact of commercial afforestation on Ireland’s archaeological heritage. From 2003 to mid-2015, Bryn lived in Western Australia, where he worked with Aboriginal heritage and became Director of his own successful consultancy (Amergin Consulting). Working in collaboration with anthropologists, archaeologists, Aboriginal communities and others, he delivered or contributed to around 300 heritage projects. The majority of this work was development-driven and included road schemes valued at up to AU$1.2BN (approx. €775M); some of the largest industrial developments in Australia including railway lines; and some of the largest mining developments in the world for proponents including BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and FMG.
Expertise
Bryn is a published historian and has contributed to journal articles as well as local and international conferences, drawing on his experiences working with Aboriginal communities in Western Australia and his historical research interests in Ireland.

Richard Clutterbuck
BA (Hons), MLitt, PhD, MIAI
Project Archaeology Manager
Richard has over 20 years’ experience as a professional archaeologist and project manager working on large- and small-scale projects in rural and urban environments in Ireland. Richard also has specialist experience in LiDAR and Architectural Heritage.
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Experience
Richard is an experienced project archaeologist on large-scale urban redevelopment projects and flood alleviation schemes in Ireland. He has directed 50 excavations, ranging from small-scale urban assessments to large-scale rural excavations in advance of road construction. He has also project managed large-scale infrastructural projects, including the assessment phase archaeological excavations on a 13km section of the M6 Galway to Ballinasloe National Road Scheme, and archaeological investigations and mitigations for the Meath Bundled Wastewater Collection Scheme.
Expertise
Richard specialises in historic landscape analysis, GIS and LiDAR analysis, buildings recording, archaeological excavation and assessment in urban environments. Richard is the project archaeologist for the Abbey Creative Quarter, Kilkenny City. He was previously a Senior Archaeologist with CRDS for ten years before completing his doctoral research in 2015, funded by the Irish Research Council, on the historic landscape of rural Ireland.

Steve Lancaster
BSc (Hons), PhD, ACIfA, FSA(Scot)
UK Manager
Steve has over 16 years experience in the heritage sector. He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Archaeology and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. specialising in EIA, geoarchaeology and marine cultural heritage.
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Experience
Steve has undertaken EIA work on a wide range of projects carrying out all aspects of the process from initial scoping to producing EIAR/ES chapters and devising mitigation strategies. EIA projects that Steve has worked on range across on- and offshore windfarms, quarries/surface mines, biomass plants, cable routes, nuclear power, harbour regeneration and road schemes. His EIA work involves all aspects of the EIA process, including undertaking setting impact assessments.
Expertise
In addition to working on EIAs, Steve has acted as geoarchaeological consultant on infrastructure projects, especially road schemes, gas pipelines, energy from waste facilities and offshore cable routes, applying his geoarchaeological expertise to develop deposit models and develop suitable sampling and recording strategies to enable the most effective mitigation of impacts on cultural heritage.

Joanne Hughes
BA, MSc.
EIA Manager
Joanne has worked as a field archaeologist since 1996 and has directed excavations in Ireland since 2002. She completed a 1-year contract with Cork City Council (CCC) as Cork City Archaeologist in 2018 and subsequently undertook a project management role with CCC (MMIAH Project) before joining the AMS team in 2019.
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Experience and Expertise
In the heritage and tourism fields Joanne has worked with organizations including Office of Public Works, South Tipperary Development (LEADER) Company and South Tipperary Tourism Company. In a voluntary capacity she works with local committees to deliver archaeology and heritage related projects with an acknowledged high education value.

Cristina Ocejo
BSc MSc
Administrator
Cristina’s role in AMS involves matters relating to administration, HR and secretarial requirements, and supporting the team throughout Ireland and the UK.
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Experience and Expertise
Cristina has over a decade of experience in a variety of administrative and project support roles in Spain and Ireland. She has worked across a diverse range of different sectors from the health service and the European airline industry to a global data and technology company.

Karina Coldrick
BCom, GradDipFinPlan
Marketing and Communications
Karina Coldrick is a marketing and business development specialist with extensive experience in stakeholder consultation, strategic planning, market research and communications.
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Experience
Karina has over fifteen years experience in marketing and strategic planning across a wide range of industries in both Ireland and Australia. As the former National Head of Process Innovation for an Australian market research company, her role was to drive the integration of market research, digital communication and business consulting arms. Previously, in Ireland, she was the National Brand Manager for Jameson Whiskey.
Expertise
Karina has particular expertise in:
- Market feasibility assessments
- Marketing Communications planning and development
- Brand development and management
- Stakeholder consultation
She is a former Fellow of Finsia (2006-2011) and an Australian Certified Practising Marketer (2003-2011).

Fintan Walsh
BSc (Hons), MIAI, MCIfA
Excavation Manager
Fintan Walsh has over 20 years’ experience in the commercial archaeology sector and in this time has undertaken over 160 licensed excavations, testing exercises and monitoring briefs.
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Experience
Fintan specialises in project management, report and publication production, editing and post-excavation management. He has project managed numerous large-scale archaeological excavations and projects throughout Ireland with teams in excess of 70 field archaeologists. Most recently these projects have included the N69 Listowel Bypass, and the N70, N72 and N86 Road Projects in Co. Kerry. Other major road schemes include the M7 Naas–Newbridge Bypass Upgrade, M7 Osberstown Interchange in Co. Kildare and the A31 Magherafelt Bypass in Co Derry.
Expertise
On these schemes, Fintan managed all aspects of archaeological fieldwork, Health and Safety (PSCS), programming of site works, quality control, client liaison and post-excavation. He has widely published his work and has presented the results of this work at numerous conferences. He is a full member of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland (MIAI) and the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (MCIfA).

Tony Bartlett
MIAI, PGCert
Senior Archaeologist
Tony has over 20 years’ experience in the commercial archaeology sector throughout Ireland, Germany and Australia in all aspects of archaeological research, fieldwork and excavation, post-excavation analysis and dissemination, report writing and publication.
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Experience
As a licensed director, he has managed numerous excavations including several large-scale projects throughout Ireland, particularly linear developments such as gas pipelines and roads. In his native Kerry Tony has managed the archaeological services for the N22 Tralee Bypass, the N69 Listowel Bypass, the N70 Brackaharagh and N72 Stagmount Bends Road Improvement Schemes and the Kerry, Cork and Clare Bridge Rehabilitation Scheme.

Dr Ger Dowling
BA (Hons), MA (Hons), PhD
Senior Archaeologist
Ger has almost 20 years’ experience in all aspects of archaeological research, fieldwork and excavation, working in both academic and commercial sectors. Ger also has specialist expertise in Geophysics and LiDAR.
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Experience
Ger has particular expertise in the design, implementation and management of geophysical survey projects, having undertaken surveys at a wide variety of sites in Ireland and abroad since 2002. He was Assistant Project Director on The Discovery Programme’s Late Iron Age and ‘Roman’ Ireland’ project (2011–2015) and was appointed Principal Surveyor on the Monastic Ireland Project in 2015.
Expertise
His research interests lie in the architecture, ritual practices and broader social and cultural trends of late prehistoric Ireland (Late Bronze Age–Iron Age), with a specific emphasis on how these aspects manifest and coalesce within ‘royal’ landscapes.

Colum Hardy
MA (Hons)
Senior Archaeologist
Colum Hardy is a highly experienced and accomplished archaeologist and project manager with over 15 years’ experience working on small and large-scale infrastructural projects.
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Experience
As a site director, he has managed many large-scale archaeological projects on behalf of archaeological contractors. He has carried out archaeological assessments and excavations and written reports, and has been involved in some of the largest excavations undertaken in Ireland.

Dr Ros O Maolduin
BSc (Hons), PhD
Senior Archaeologist
Ros is a highly-skilled archaeologist with over 20 years’ experience in archaeological research and excavation, during which he has worked in Ireland, Britain, France, Romania, Italy and Lesotho.
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Experience
Ros has particularly extensive experience in the management of large infrastructure projects and in the delivery of training, and maintains an active research profile. He has previously worked as a ‘Senior Archaeologist’ in Ireland (VJK Ltd and ADS Ltd) and ‘Senior Project Manager’ the United Kingdom (OA), where he oversaw the archaeological components of several major infrastructure projects, from tendering, through assessment, project design, fieldwork and publication. During that work, he was responsible for up to 300+ personnel and oversaw a wide variety of situations which he successfully mitigated for his clients.
Expertise
Ros has a special research interest in the Neolithic and Bronze Age of north-western Europe and has been the recipient of grants from several prestigious research institutions, including the ‘Royal Irish Academy’ and the ‘Mellon Foundation’. He lectures part-time at the National University of Ireland, Galway and directs a university accredited field-school (www.prehistoricfieldschool.ie), where along with conducting cutting-edge research he is developing digital recording techniques. He is also currently collaborating with an international team of scientists on several ancient DNA projects.

Dr Eve Campbell
PhD, MIAI
Research/ Field Archaeologist
Eve has worked as an archaeologist, researcher, and heritage professional since 2003. She is licence-eligible and a member of the IAI and the Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group.
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Expertise and Experience
After gaining a first-class honours degree in history and archaeology from NUIG, she worked as a commercial archaeologist before completing a PhD on the archaeology of the Cromwellian Transplantation as an IRCHSS scholar at NUI Galway. Since graduating, she has worked on multiple projects in the commercial, research and community sectors, including the Louth Field Names Project, and the Archaeology of 1916.

Joe Nunan
BS(Merit), BA(Hons), MA(Hons), PGDip, MPhil
Site Director
Joe Nunan has over 17 years experience as an archaeologist working on infrastructural, commercial, private, and academic projects throughout Ireland, the US, and the UK.
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Experience
Joe has extensive experience as a site director; he has been license eligible since 2007.
Joe has worked as an archaeologist with the University and Museum of Texas Tech (US), the Museum of London Archaeology (UK), and with University College Cork (IRL).
Expertise
His interests are focused on, but not limited, to Plantation and Frontier archaeology.

Patrick Walsh
BA (Hons), HDip, MA, PMEP
Site Director
As a licensed archaeologist with over 20 years’ field experience, Patrick’s work has involved all aspects of archaeological excavation, from pre-excavation services through to excavation, post-excavation and publication.
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Experience
Patrick has experience working on a range of large-scale projects, particularly linear developments such as roads and pipelines, and has worked for a range of clients including private developers, State and semi-State bodies.
Expertise
In addition to working as a field archaeologist, he has also been employed as a Research Analyst, Research Fellow and Tutor for the Department of Archaeology, University College Dublin.

John Channing
BA, HDip, MIAI
Site Director
John combines over 30 years experience in commercial archaeology with 100+ licensed excavations with a love of visual communication and graphic design. He likes bringing technical data to life visually, making it accessible.
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Experience
John has a wide range of experience in developer driven archaeology from planning advice to survey, excavation and publication. Developments range in scale from single dwelling to large infrastructural projects with a matching diversity in client base. John previously spent over 10 years with V.J.Keeley Ltd as a Senior Archaeologist where he sat on the company management team working directly with company owners and 220 field Archaeologists to bring large infrastructural projects to successful completion.
These include:
- M7 Heath-Mayfield
- N9N10 Kilcullen to Waterford
- N6 Kinnegad-Kilbeggan
- N30 Co. Wexford
John’s graphic and visual work has seen him conduct photo-shoots for portrait, commercial and wedding clients in Ireland, UK, Portugal, Italy, and France. His commercial clients range from the Commercial Bank of Qatar to Independent News and Media while his private clients remain just that, they come from Europe (east and west), USA, Brazil, India, Australia and New Zealand
Expertise
John brings a wealth of experience and an open inquiring mind to every project. He is a member of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland (MIAI). He specialises in excavation, project management and photography.

Lynda McCormack
BA, MIAI, PCIFA
Supervisor
Lynda McCormack is an experienced field archaeologist with over a decade of experience in the commercial sector on large infrastructure projects across Ireland.
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Experience
Lynda returned from the UK where she Project Managed geophysical surveys for High Speed railway2 and has recently designed and project managed a number of Irish geophysical surveys in the greater Dublin area.
Expertise
Her specific research interests lie in the Irish Passage Tomb Tradition which forms the subject of her PhD research.
Other Professional Interests
She has been on the Board of the IAI since 2016 as Conference Organiser and recently become an Ordinary Board member.

Alan Healy
BSc
Supervisor
Alan has been involved all aspects of archaeological excavation, working on some of the larger projects that have been undertaken over the last number of years. In addition to working as a field archaeologist he has been involved in running archaeology related events for children.

Martin Duffy
BA (Hons), MSc
GIS
Martin is a GIS and remote sensing specialist, with a particular interest in applying digital solutions to archaeological research.
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Experience and Expertise
He holds an Msc from NUI Maynooth in GIS and remote sensing and one from University College London in archaeological GIS and spatial statistics. In the past he has worked with remotely sensed satellite data, and is currently completing his PhD thesis entitled “Mapping social, ideological and economic transformations: settlement and landscape in the early medieval kingdom of Brega, AD 400-1100” which relies heavily on GIS to study settlement in the early medieval kingdom of Brega.

Daniel Keane
BSc (Hons)
Surveyor
Daniel has over six years experience as an archaeologist. He has also worked as a building surveyor responsible for projects under supervision from beginning to end, including all site work processing and production of detailed building and topographical drawings.
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Experience and Expertise
Daniel has worked extensively on building/demolition sites, schools, pipe-line, tower blocks, heritage sites, warehouses and private residences. His particular skills include the use of total-station and 3D scanners to produce building floor plans, elevations, sections and topography drawings, as well as AutoCAD and Realworks.

Bryn Coldrick
BA (Hons), PgCert, MA
Quality Manager
Bryn Coldrick is an experienced heritage consultant and qualified local historian with undergraduate qualifications in history and heritage studies, and postgraduate qualifications in local history and social science research methods.
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Experience
He has worked as a heritage consultant in Ireland and Australia for almost 20 years, and has wide experience in desktop research, impact assessment, report writing, community consultation, proofreading and editing. Between 1999 and 2003, he worked as an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Archaeologist with Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd and Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd (as EIA Manager), undertaking around 170 impact assessments for residential, commercial and infrastructure projects. He was also co-author of a nationwide study for the Irish Government examining the impact of commercial afforestation on Ireland’s archaeological heritage. From 2003 to mid-2015, Bryn lived in Western Australia, where he worked with Aboriginal heritage and became Director of his own successful consultancy (Amergin Consulting). Working in collaboration with anthropologists, archaeologists, Aboriginal communities and others, he delivered or contributed to around 300 heritage projects. The majority of this work was development-driven and included road schemes valued at up to AU$1.2BN (approx. €775M); some of the largest industrial developments in Australia including railway lines; and some of the largest mining developments in the world for proponents including BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and FMG.
Expertise
Bryn is a published historian and has contributed to journal articles as well as local and international conferences, drawing on his experiences working with Aboriginal communities in Western Australia and his historical research interests in Ireland.

Joanne Hughes
BA, MSc.
EIA Manager
Joanne has worked as a field archaeologist since 1996 and has directed excavations in Ireland since 2002. She completed a 1-year contract with Cork City Council (CCC) as Cork City Archaeologist in 2018 and subsequently undertook a project management role with CCC (MMIAH Project) before joining the AMS team in 2019.
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Experience and Expertise
In the heritage and tourism fields Joanne has worked with organizations including Office of Public Works, South Tipperary Development (LEADER) Company and South Tipperary Tourism Company. In a voluntary capacity she works with local committees to deliver archaeology and heritage related projects with an acknowledged high education value.

Dr Steve Lancaster
BSc (Hons), PhD, ACIfA, FSA(Scot)
UK Manager
Steve has over 16 years experience in the heritage sector. He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Archaeology and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. specialising in EIA, geoarchaeology and marine cultural heritage.
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Experience
Steve has undertaken EIA work on a wide range of projects carrying out all aspects of the process from initial scoping to producing EIAR/ES chapters and devising mitigation strategies. EIA projects that Steve has worked on range across on- and offshore windfarms, quarries/surface mines, biomass plants, cable routes, nuclear power, harbour regeneration and road schemes. His EIA work involves all aspects of the EIA process, including undertaking setting impact assessments.
Expertise
In addition to working on EIAs, Steve has acted as geoarchaeological consultant on infrastructure projects, especially road schemes, gas pipelines, energy from waste facilities and offshore cable routes, applying his geoarchaeological expertise to develop deposit models and develop suitable sampling and recording strategies to enable the most effective mitigation of impacts on cultural heritage.

Dr Eve Campbell
PhD, MIAI
Research / Field Archaeologist
Eve has worked as an archaeologist, researcher, and heritage professional since 2003. She is licence-eligible and a member of the IAI and the Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group.
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Expertise and Experience
After gaining a first-class honours degree in history and archaeology from NUIG, she worked as a commercial archaeologist before completing a PhD on the archaeology of the Cromwellian Transplantation as an IRCHSS scholar at NUI Galway. Since graduating, she has worked on multiple projects in the commercial, research and community sectors, including the Louth Field Names Project, and the Archaeology of 1916.

Stephen Hickey
EIA Consultant
BA, MIAI
Steve is a licenced archaeologist with over 20 years experience in the field. A graduate of Archaeology and Greek & Roman Civilisation, Steve has experience in monitoring, testing and excavating a wide range of site types, settings and periods in Ireland and abroad since 1999.
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Experience
As a licenced director Steve has seen sites through from the assessment phase to post-excavation in both a rural and urban context. This experience is complemented by a number of diverse roles within the profession; notibly working with the Wood Quay and ethnographic collections in the National Museum of Ireland, working alongside the City Archaeologist in DCC, and for a seven-year period working as a researcher, surveyor and illustrator in a architectural conservation firm specialising in measured survey, planning and conservation issues, photomontages, visual impact, record photography, and restoration.
Expertise
His expertise in AutoCAD and Photoshop is utilised in the design and production of mapping and report illustrations, as well as digitising site drawings. His interests lie in the archaeology and architecture of Dublin city.

Dr Kim Rice
EIA Consultant
BA (Hons), MA (Hons), PhD, MIAI
Kim is a licence eligible archaeologist with over eighteen years’ professional experience. She has worked in the academic and commercial sectors and has participated in archaeological research projects in Ireland, England, France, Italy, Portugal and the Philippines.
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Experience
In addition to undertaking desk-based assessments, managing post-excavation projects and producing technical reports and publications, Kim has directed excavations in Dublin City and its surrounding hinterlands.
Expertise
Her research interests include early prehistoric landscapes and material culture, social archaeology, and increasingly, the built environment, urban landscapes (contemporary and historic), and post-medieval archaeology. She has presented papers on her research in Ireland, England, France, Jordan, Vietnam and the Philippines.

Sinéad Marshall
BA (Hons), ACIfA
EIA Consultant
Sinéad is an archaeologist with over 20 years’ experience in the sector, a licence eligible site director in Ireland since 2007, and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Archaeology (ACIfA).
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Experience
Sinéad joined AMS in 2020, following Senior Archaeologist and Project Manager roles at Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) from 2015-19. Initially working on Crossrail’s Bedlam burial ground, a deeply stratified urban site, and rural Saxon excavations on the A1-M1 road scheme, she progressed to specialising in desk-based assessment, EIA, and consultancy advice for MOLA within London and across England.
Having worked as an archaeologist in Ireland, the UK, Albania and Germany, Sinéad brings international experience of impact assessment, testing/evaluation, monitoring/watching briefs, excavation and post-excavation analysis on developments including high-rise urban towers, residential, infrastructure schemes, intertidal zones, caves, industrial and greenfield sites dating from the Palaeolithic to modern periods for public sector and commercial clients.
Expertise
As a planning consultant, Sinéad is skilled in scoping and delivery of archaeological assessment and EIA projects to a high standard, working with development clients and planning authorities to identify and agree appropriate, targeted approaches for mitigation of heritage matters.
Professional Interests
Her interests include GIS, museums, and public engagement in archaeology as a Project Officer on the Ness of Brodgar Neolithic World Heritage Site community excavations in Orkney and as a Trustee of the London Archaeologist publication.

Richard Clutterbuck
BA (Hons), MLitt, PhD, MIAI
Project Archaeology Manager
Richard has over 20 years’ experience as a professional archaeologist and project manager working on large- and small-scale projects in rural and urban environments in Ireland.
Richard also has particular expertise in LiDAR and Architectural Heritage.
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Experience
Richard is an experienced project archaeologist on large-scale urban redevelopment projects and flood alleviation schemes in Ireland. He has directed 50 excavations, ranging from small-scale urban assessments to large-scale rural excavations in advance of road construction. He has also project managed large-scale infrastructural projects, including the assessment phase archaeological excavations on a 13km section of the M6 Galway to Ballinasloe National Road Scheme, and archaeological investigations and mitigations for the Meath Bundled Wastewater Collection Scheme.
Expertise
Richard specialises in historic landscape analysis, GIS and LiDAR analysis, buildings recording, archaeological excavation and assessment in urban environments. Richard is the project archaeologist for the Abbey Creative Quarter, Kilkenny City. He was previously a Senior Archaeologist with CRDS for ten years before completing his doctoral research in 2015, funded by the Irish Research Council, on the historic landscape of rural Ireland.

Freya Smith
BA (Hons), HDip, PGDip, MPhil
Project Archaeologist
A graduate in archaeology and history, with several postgraduate qualifications in related areas (Osteoarchaeology, GIS and Heritage Visualisation), Freya Smith has over 18 years’ professional experience working within the private and public heritage sectors.
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Experience
The earlier part of her career focused on developing a thorough grounding in all aspects of on-site/post-ex works, desk-based/historical research, writing technical reports and impact assessments, and supervising on-site teams.Freya also has extensive project management experience, having worked over an eight-year period managing archaeological/heritage aspects for light rail, metro and road projects for the RPA and NRA (now merged into the TII).
Expertise
More recently, following two years of post-graduate study in the theory and practice of Digital Heritage Visualisation (focusing on GIS and 3D Visualisation), Freya worked in this field as a Research Fellow in the School of Histories and Humanities, TCD. She is also a qualified osteoarchaeologist, experienced in co-ordinating cemetery excavations and undertaking specialist analysis.

Ed Danaher
BSc (Hons), MIAI MCIfA
Director and Principal Archaeologist
Ed is the Director of Archaeological Management Solutions, which specialises in providing a complete archaeological management service from project inception through planning, procurement, contractual operations to close out.
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Experience
Ed is a highly experienced and accomplished archaeologist and project manager. He has over 20 years’ experience working on large-scale infrastructural projects throughout Ireland and Britain, including all stages from archaeological assessment and design of fieldwork strategies to management of archaeological fieldwork.
Expertise
As a site director, he has managed many large-scale archaeological projects on behalf of archaeological contractors. He has carried out over 90 archaeological assessments and excavations and written reports for each, and has been involved in some of the largest excavations undertaken in Ireland. He also has extensive publication experience including a book entitled Monumental Beginnings, the Archaeology of the N4 Sligo Inner Relief Road.
Other Professional Interests
Ed also has extensive experience providing archaeological technical advice across a wide range of projects on behalf of clients including government and semi-state bodies, local authorities, engineering consultancies, and private developers. His provision of robust management and his ability to provide cost- and time-effective solutions have ensured successful outcomes.
He currently acts as Transport Scotland’s Historic Environment Advisor on all of their Trunk Road Projects, is the appointed Office of Public Works Project Archaeologist on many of their flood relief schemes, and currently advises numerous engineering consultancies on the procurement and management of the archaeological components of their infrastructural projects.

Ireland
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T: +353 65 810 3001 or 065 906 2878
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United Kingdom
AMS Consultancy,
York Hub,
Popeshead Court Offices,
Peter Lane, York,
YO1 8SU
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