The Project Team
The project is jointly directed by:
Dr. Amy Gazin-Schwartz, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Assumption College, Massachusetts, USA. Amy is particularly interested in studying continuity and change in rural settlement and relationships between folklore and archaeology.
and
Dr. Olivia Lelong, a Project Manager at Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division (GUARD). Olivia has extensive experience both in archaeological fieldwork and with training volunteers in excavation. She has strong research interests in the Pictish, early Christian and Viking/Norse periods in the North Atlantic, and also excavates in Shetland and on St. Kilda.
Ingrid Shearer, the website designer and one of the excavation supervisors, is a Project Officer with GUARD. Ingrid has a long standing interest in the archaeology of the far north of Scotland and the Isles and has worked in Orkney, Shetland, the Western Isles and St Kilda.
Dr. Andrew Baines also supervised the excavations at Borralie in 2004 and 2005. Andrew is a freelance archaeologist, who has worked throughout Scotland on both commercial and research projects, and has published on various aspects of Scottish prehistory and archaeological theory. Dr. Amelia Pannett also worked as an excavation supervisor in 2004 and 2005, and Ally Beckett supervised the 2006 excavations.
The excellent excavation team in 2004 consisted of Matthew Bell, Ross Cameron, John Carrigan, Tegan Daly, Bruce Dunsmore, Cheryl Leggett, Stephen Leggett, Nicola McConnell, Jennifer Melia, Heidi Monin, Stuart Paterson, Alexis Skinner, Andrea Tulloch and Claire Williamson. Students from Farr Secondary School and Kinlochbervie High School also participated in the work.
The equally stunning 2005 team was made up of Courtenay Buchanan, Richard Campbell, Katie Cummings, Rachel Dingfelder, Claire Doyle, Ashley Echard, Bradley Gutkin, Francine Melia, Sandy Maclean, Stuart Paterson and Cynthia Sanden. Sarah Mackay and Rebekah Brett-Pitt from Farr Secondary School and Craig Stangroon and John Marks, residents of the Durness area, also helped out on site.
Our stellar 2006 team consisted of Alex Brey, Andrew Colling, Jessica Bain Connaster, Scott Forsyth, Erin Jackson, David MacGowran, Marlyn Price and Susan Roberston. Clayton Tinsley joined us to analyse animal bone from Borralie and teach the students about faunal analysis.