Kate Welham

Professor Kate Welham

  • Professor Of Archaeological Sciences
  • Christchurch House C118, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
Back to top

Biography

My primary research focus is the application of remote sensing techniques in an archaeological context. I am an experienced archaeological surveyor with expertise in topographical survey, geophysical prospection, GIS, and 3D scanning technology. I have directed a number of recent archaeological surveys on both prehistoric and historic landscapes in the UK and abroad including, Stonehenge, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and Tanzania.

Recent research projects have included the Rapa Nui: Landscapes of Construction Project (with Sue Hamilton, UCL and Colin Richards, Manchester University), and the Songo Mnara: Urban Space, Social memory and Materiality (with Stephanie Wynne-Jones, University of York and Jeff Fleisher, Rice University). I am a co-director of the AHRC funded Stonehenge Riverside Project (with the Universities of Sheffield, Manchester, Bristol and UCL).

I also specialise in materials and production technology with particular reference to glass production in Northern Europe from the late 1st to early 2nd millennium AD...

more

Research

My primary research focus is the application of remote sensing techniques in an archaeological context. I am an experienced archaeological surveyor with expertise in topographical survey, geophysical prospection, GIS, and 3D scanning technology. I have directed a number of recent archaeological surveys on both prehistoric and historic landscapes in the UK and abroad including, Stonehenge, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and Tanzania.

Recent research projects have included the Rapa Nui: Landscapes of Construction Project (with Sue Hamilton, UCL and Colin Richards, Manchester University), and the Songo Mnara: Urban Space, Social memory and Materiality (with Stephanie Wynne-Jones, University of York and Jeff Fleisher, Rice University). I am a co-director of the AHRC funded Stonehenge Riverside Project (with the Universities of Sheffield, Manchester, Bristol and UCL).

I also specialise in materials and production technology with particular reference to glass production in Northern Europe from the late 1st to early 2nd millennium AD. Recent projects include the archaeological investigation of glass making at Glastonbury Abbey, (with Hugh Willmott, University of Sheffield).

Favourites

  • Welham, K., Shaw, L., Dover, M., Manley, H., Pearson, M.P., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J. and Tilley, C., 2015. Google under-the-earth: Seeing Beneath Stonehenge using Google Earth - A tool for public engagement and the dissemination of archaeological data. Internet Archaeology.
  • Willmott, H. and Welham, K., 2015. Saxon Glass Furnaces. In: Green, C. and Gilchrist, R., eds. Glastonbury Abbey: archaeological investigations 1904–79. Society of Antiquaries, 218-238.
  • Welham, K., Fleisher, J., Cheetham, P., Manley, H., Steele, C. and Wynne-Jones, S., 2014. Geophysical Survey in Sub-Saharan Africa: magnetic and Electromagnetic Investigation of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Songo Mnara, Tanzania. Archaeological Prospection.
  • Willmott, H. and Welham, K., 2013. Late Seventh-Century Glassmaking at Glastonbury Abbey. Journal of Glass Studies, 55, 71-83.
  • Fleisher, J., Wynne-Jones, S., Steele, C. and Welham, K., 2012. Geophysical Survey at Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania. Journal of African Archaeology, 10 (2), 207-220.

Journal Articles

  • Williams, D., Bosquet, D., Pollard, T., Welham, K., Eve, S. and De Smedt, P., 2024. Contributions of Multi-Method Geophysical Survey to Archaeological Research at the Battlefield of Waterloo. Archaeological Prospection, 31 (3), 267-287.
  • Williams, D., Welham, K., Eve, S. and De Smedt, P., 2024. Geophysical approaches to the archaeological prospection of early modern battlefield landscapes: a review of methods and objectives. Journal of Conflict Archaeology.
  • Williams, D., Welham, K., Eve, S. and De Smedt, P., 2024. Geophysical approaches to the archaeological prospection of early modern battlefield landscapes: a review of methods and objectives. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 19 (1), 6-41.
  • Williams, D., De Smedt, P., Welham, K. and Eve, S., 2023. Early Results from Large-Scale Multi-Method Geophysical Surveys at the Battlefield of Waterloo, Belgium. ISAPNews, 68, 12-18.
  • Tamminen, H.M., Smith, M.J., Welham, K. and Ford, A.L.J., 2023. 3D printed control for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) close-range photogrammetric reconstruction. Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 30.
  • Tamminen, H.M., Ford, A.L.J., Welham, K., Loe, L., Webb, H., Boyle, A. and Smith, M.J., 2023. Residual energy dispersal fracturing: A newly proposed term for fractures propagating from sharp-force trauma. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 181 (1), 96-106.
  • Parker Pearson, M., Bevins, R., Pearce, N., Ixer, R., Pollard, J., Richards, C. and Welham, K., 2022. Reconstructing extraction techniques at Stonehenge's bluestone megalith quarries in the Preseli hills of west Wales. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 46.
  • Parker Pearson, M., Welham, K. et al., 2022. How Waun Mawn stone circle was designed and built, and when the Bluestones arrived at Stonehenge: A response to Darvill. Antiquity, 96 (390), 1530-1537.
  • Pearson, M.P., Welham, K. et al., 2021. The original Stonehenge A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales. Antiquity, 95 (379), 85-103.
  • Gillespie, D. and Welham, K., 2020. Subjective and objective assessment of 3D textured and non-textured Cultural Heritage Artefacts. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.
  • Cannell, R.J.S., Bill, J., Cheetham, P. and Welham, K., 2020. Geochemical analysis of the truncated Viking Age trading settlement of Heimdalsjordet, Norway. Geoarchaeology, 35 (5), 748-771.
  • Falconer, L., Burden, D., Cleal, R., Hoyte, R., Phelps, P., Slawson, N., Snashall, N. and Welham, K., 2020. Virtual avebury: Exploring sense of place in a virtual archaeology simulation. Virtual Archaeology Review, 11 (23), 50-62.
  • Egberts, E., Basell, L.S., Welham, K., Brown, A.G. and Toms, P.S., 2020. Pleistocene landscape evolution in the Avon valley, southern Britain: Optical dating of terrace formation and Palaeolithic archaeology. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 131 (2), 121-137.
  • Roberts, H., Gale, J. and Welham, K., 2020. A four stage approach to community archaeology, illustrated with case studies from dorset, England. Obradoiro de Historia Moderna.
  • Pearson, M.P., Welham, K. et al., 2019. Megalith quarries for Stonehenge's bluestones. Antiquity, 93 (367), 45-62.
  • Casswell, C., Comeau, R., Parker Pearson, M. and Welham, K., 2018. An Early Medieval Cemetery and Circular Enclosure at Felindre Farchog, North Pembrokeshire. Archaeology in Wales, 56, 100-106.
  • Parker Pearson, M., Casswell, C. and Welham, K., 2018. A Late Bronze Age ring-forst at Bayvil Farm, Pembrokeshire. Archaeologia cambrensis, 113-141.
  • Schlee, D., Comeau, R., Parker Pearson, M. and Welham, K., 2018. Carn Goedog medieval house and settlement, Pembrokeshire. Archaeologia cambrensis, 245-255.
  • Manley, H.P., Evans, D., Hewitt, I., Phurphy, P., Russell, M. and Welham, K., 2017. Tarrant Launceston: Survey and excavation of a long barrow with secondary burial at Race Down. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 138.
  • Parker Pearson, M., Casswell, C. and Welham, K., 2017. Excavations at Castell Mawr Iron Age hillfort, Pembrokeshire. Archaeologia Cambrensis, 141-173.
  • Papworth, H., Ford, A., Welham, K. and Thackray, D., 2016. Assessing 3D metric data of digital surface models for extracting archaeological data from archive stereo-aerial photographs. Journal of Archaeological Science, 72, 85-104.
  • Allen, M.J., Welham, K. et al., 2016. Stonehenge's Avenue and 'Bluestonehenge'. Antiquity, 90 (352), 991-1008.
  • Willis, C., Welham, K. et al., 2016. The dead of Stonehenge. Antiquity, 90 (350), 337-356.
  • Welham, K., Shaw, L., Dover, M., Manley, H., Pearson, M.P., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J. and Tilley, C., 2015. Google under-the-earth: Seeing Beneath Stonehenge using Google Earth - A tool for public engagement and the dissemination of archaeological data. Internet Archaeology.
  • Cannell, R., Bill, J., Cheetham, P. and Welham, K., 2015. The Gokstad Viking Age Trading Site: a voyage of physicochemical prospection. Archaeologia Polona, 53, 438-439.
  • Parker Pearson, M., Welham, K., Smith, M. et al., 2015. Craig Rhos-y-felin: A Welsh bluestone megalith quarry for Stonehenge. Antiquity, 89 (348), 1331-1352.
  • Welham, K., Fleisher, J., Cheetham, P., Manley, H., Steele, C. and Wynne-Jones, S., 2014. Geophysical Survey in Sub-Saharan Africa: magnetic and Electromagnetic Investigation of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Songo Mnara, Tanzania. Archaeological Prospection.
  • Willmott, H. and Welham, K., 2013. Late Seventh-Century Glassmaking at Glastonbury Abbey. Journal of Glass Studies, 55, 71-83.
  • Bennett, R., Welham, K., Hill, R.A. and Ford, A., 2013. Airborne spectral imagery for archaeological prospection in grassland environments - An evaluation of performance. Antiquity, 87 (335), 220-236.
  • Bennett, R., Welham, K., Hill, R.A. and Ford, A.L.J., 2012. The application of vegetation indices for the prospection of archaeological features in grass-dominated environments. Archaeological Prospection, 19 (3), 209-218.
  • Bennett, R., Welham, K., Hill, R.A. and Ford, A.L.J., 2012. A comparison of visualisation techniques for models created from airborne laser scanned data. Archaeological Prospection, 19, 41-48.
  • Bennett, R., Welham, K., Hill, R.A. and Ford, A.L.J., 2012. The Application of Vegetation Indices for the Prospection of Archaeological Features in Grass-dominated Environments. Archaeological Prospection.
  • Fleisher, J., Wynne-Jones, S., Steele, C. and Welham, K., 2012. Geophysical Survey at Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania. Journal of African Archaeology, 10 (2), 207-220.
  • French, C., Scaife, R., Allen, M., Parker Pearson, M., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J. and Welham, K., 2012. Durrington Walls to West Amesbury by way of Stonehenge: a major transformation of the Holocene landscape. Antiquaries Journal, 92 (Sep), 1-36.
  • Richards, C., Croucher, K., Paoa, T., Parish, T. and Welham, K., 2011. Road my body goes: re-creating ancestors from stone at the great moai quarry of Rano Raraku, Rapa Nui (Easter Island). World Archaeology.
  • Pollard, J., Paterson, A. and Welham, K., 2010. Te Miro o'one: the archaeology of contact on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). World Archaeology, 42, 562-580.
  • Thomas, J., Marshall, P., Pearson, M.P., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Tilley, C.F. and Welham, K., 2009. The date of the Greater Stonehenge Cursus. Antiquity, 83, 40-53.
  • Pearson, M.P., Chamberlain, A., Jay, M., Marshall, P., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J., Tilley, C.F. and Welham, K., 2009. Who was buried at Stonehenge? Antiquity, 83, 23-39.
  • Parker Pearson, M., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J., Tilley, C.F. and Welham, K., 2008. The Stonehenge Riverside Project: Exploring the Neolithic Landscape of Stonehenge. Documenta Praehistorica, XXXV, 153-166.
  • Parker-Pearson, M., Welham, K. et al., 2007. The Age of Stonehenge. Antiquity, 81, 617-639.
  • Parker-Pearson, M., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J.A., Tilley, C.F., Welham, K. and Albarella, U., 2006. Materializing Stonehenge: The Stonehenge Riverside Project and new discoveries. Journal of Material Culture, 11, 227-261.
  • Parker-Pearson, M., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J.A., Tilley, C.F. and Welham, K., 2006. Stonehenge, its River and its Landscape: Unravelling the Mysteries of a Prehistoric Sacred Place. Archäologischer Anzeiger, 1, 237-258.
  • Welham, K., 2006. Enhancing Employability: Learning and Teaching of Key Archaeological Field Skills. On Reflection, 11.
  • Darvill, T. and O'Connor, B., 2005. The Cronk yn How Stone and the Rock Art of the Isle of Man. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 71, 283-331.
  • Hewitt, I. and Welham, K., 2005. East Stoke, Old Church of St Mary, Stoke. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, 128, 181.
  • Parker-Pearson, M., Richards, C., Allen, M.J., Payne, A. and Welham, K., 2004. The Stonehenge Riverside Project. Research Design and Initial Results. Journal of Nordic Archaeological Science, 14, 45-60.
  • Hewitt, I., Welham, K. and Whittle, L., 2003. East Stoke. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, 124, 129.
  • Parker-Pearson, M., Richards, C., Allen, M.J., Payne, A. and Welham, K., 2003. The Stonehenge Riverside Project: New Approaches to Durrington Walls. PAST, 45, 6-8.

Books

  • Pearson, M.P., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J., Tilley, C. and Welham, K., 2022. Stonehenge for the Ancestors. Part 2 Synthesis. Sidestone Press.
  • Pearson, M.P., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Julian, T., Tilley, C. and Welham, K., 2020. Stonehenge for the Ancestors. Part 1 Landscape and Monuments. Stonehenge Riverside Sidestone Press.
  • Parker Pearson, M., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J. and Welham, K., 2015. Stonehenge Making Sense of a Prehistoric Mystery. Council for British Archaeology.

Chapters

  • Welham, K., Pitman, D., Scott-Pratt, H., Hagan, J., Casswell, C., Green, A., Duckworth, C. and Montanari, E., 2021. Geophysical and geochemical exploration of the industrial areas in the Alhambra. In: García Porras, A., Duckworth, C.N. and Govantes-Edwards, D., eds. The Royal Workshops of the Alhambra: Industrial Activity in Early Modern Granada. Boydell & Brewer.
  • García Porras, A., Duckworth, C., Welham, K., Govantes-Edwards, D., Pitman, D., Alonso, M., Ríos, J., Jímenez, M., Montanari, E. and Moore, B., 2021. La producción cerámica en Granada entre la época medieval y moderna. Los talleres del Secano de la Alhambra. (The pottery production in Granada between the middle ages and the modern period. The Alhambra workshops of el secano.). In: Coll Conesa, J. and Salinas Pleguezuelo, E., eds. Technologia de los Vidriados en el Oeste Mediterráneo: Tradiciones islámicas y cristianas. Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, Gobierno de España, 221-253.
  • Pollard, J., Parker Pearson, M., Garwoord, P., Richards, C., Thomas, J. and Welham, K., 2019. Stonehenge in the Bronze Age. In: Meller, H. and Bertemes, F., eds. Der Aufbruch zu neuen Horizonten. Neue Sichtweisen zur europaischen Fruhbronzezeit. Abschlusstagung der Forschergruppe FOR550 vom 26. bis 29. November 2010 in Halle (Saale).. Halle: Landesmuseums fur Vorgeschichte.
  • Cannell, R.J.S., Cheetham, P.N. and Welham, K., 2017. Geochemical analysis using portable X-ray fluorescence. Avaldsnes - A Sea-Kings' Manor in First-Millennium Western Scandinavia. 421-454.
  • Pollard, C.J., Garwood, P., Parker Pearson, M., Richards, C., Thomas, J. and Welham, K., 2017. Remembered and imagined belongings: Stonehenge in the age of first metals. In: Bickle, P., Cummings, V., Hofmann, D. and Pollard, C.J., eds. The Neolithic of Europe. Papers in honour of Alasdair Whittle. Oxbow Books.
  • Willmott, H. and Welham, K., 2015. Saxon Glass Furnaces. In: Green, C. and Gilchrist, R., eds. Glastonbury Abbey: archaeological investigations 1904–79. Society of Antiquaries, 218-238.
  • Bennett, R., Welham, K., Hill, R.A. and Ford, A., 2013. Using lidar as part of a multi-sensor approach to archaeological survey and interpretation. In: Opitz, R.S. and Cowley, D.C., eds. Interpreting Archaeological Topography. Airborne Laser Scanning, 3D Data and Ground Observation.. Oxbow Books, 197-205.
  • Parker Pearson, M., Marshall, P., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J. and Welham, K., 2013. Stonehenge. In: Fokkens, H., ed. The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age. Oxford University Press, 159-174.
  • Richards, C., Challands, A. and Welham, K., 2013. Erecting stone circles in a Hebridean landscape. Building the Great Stone Circles of the North. Windgather Press.
  • Bennett, R., Welham, K., Hill, R.A. and Ford, A.L.J., 2011. Making the most of airborne remote sensing techniques for archaeological survey and interpretation. In: Cowley, D.C., ed. Remote Sensing for Archaeological Heritage Management.. Brussels, Belgium: Europae Archaeologia Consilium, 99-106.
  • Parker Pearson, M., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J., Welham, K., Bevins, R., Ixer, R., Marshall, P. and Chamberlain, A., 2011. Stonehenge: controversies of the bluestones. In: García Sanjuán, L., Scarre, C. and Wheatley, D.W., eds. Exploring Time and Matter in Prehistoric Monuments: Absolute Chronology and Rare Rocks in European Megaliths. 219-252.
  • Parker Pearson, M., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J., Welham, K., Albarella, U., Chan, B., Marshall, P. and Viner, S., 2011. Feeding Stonehenge: Feasting in Late Neolithic Britain. In: Aranda Jiménez, G., Montón-Subías, S. and Sánchez Romero, M., eds. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner: Feasting Rituals in the Prehistoric Societies of Europe and the Near East. Oxford: Oxbow, 73-90.
  • Parker Pearson, M., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J., Tilley, C. and Welham, K., 2010. Stonehenge and Early Bronze Age Cosmology. In: Meller, H., ed. Der Griff nach den Sternen: Nebra-Conference Halle. Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, 397-416.
  • Manley, H., Andrews, K. and Welham, K., 2003. Clay Sources and Their Use in Prehistoric Pottery Production. In: Darvill, T., ed. Billown Neolithic Landscape Project, Isle of Man. Seventh Report: 2002. Poole, England: School of Conservation Sciences, Bournemouth University and Manx National Heritage.
  • Doonan, R.C.P., Haslam, R., Smith, M. and Welham, K., 2001. Metalworking at Site O, F630. In: Darvill, T., ed. Billown Neolithic Landscape Project, Isle of Man. Sixth Report: 2000. Poole, England: School of Conservation Sciences, Bournemouth University and Manx National Heritage, 7-8.
  • Doonan, R.C.P., Cheetham, P., O'Connor, B., Elley, T. and Welham, K., 2001. Investigations at Langness: The 2000 Field-Season. In: Darvill, T., ed. Billown Neolithic Landscape Project, Isle of Man. Sixth Report: 2000. Poole, England: School of Conservation Sciences, Bournemouth University and Manx National Heritage, 40-47.

Conferences

  • Williams, D., De Smedt, P., Welham, K. and Eve, S., 2022. EARLY RESULTS FROM LARGE-SCALE MULTI-METHOD GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS AT THE BATTLEFIELD OF WATERLOO, BELGIUM. In: Recent Advances in Archaeological Geophysics & Forensic Geoscience 6 December 2022 London.
  • Williams, D., De Smedt, P., Eve, S. and Welham, K., 2022. Geospatial Approaches to Mapping Archaeological Deposits in Dynamic Landscapes: The Battlefield of Waterloo, Belgium. In: Spatial Humanities 2022 7-9 September 2022 Ghent.
  • Garcia Porras, A., Martin Ramos, L., Duckworth, C., Welham, K., Govantes Edwards, D., Peregrina Sanchez, M.J. and Galan Canton, I., 2022. Los talleres artesanales de la Alhambra. Espacios y materiales. In: Petridis, P., Yangaki, A., Liaros, N. and Evangelia, E., eds. 12th Congress AIECM3 On Medieval and Modern Period Mediterranean Ceramics 21-27 September 2018 Athens. , 89-96.
  • Parker Pearson, M., Bevins, R., Ixer, R., Pollard, J., Richards, C. and Welham, K., 2020. Long-distance landscapes: from quarries to monument at Stonehenge. In: Boaventura, R., Mataloto, R. and Pereira, A., eds. MEGA-TALKS 2 19-20 November 2015 Redondo, Portugal. Megaliths and Geolog: Megálitos e Geologia, 151-169 Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.
  • Downes, J., Keir, A., Richards, C., Torres Hochstetter, F., Torres Jeria, P. and Welham, K., 2019. Care for the Future: Heritage Education in the Context of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and Other Small Island Communities. In: Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific. 21-26 June 2015 Berlin.
  • Welham, K., Brown, J., Cheetham, P., Gill, M. and Shaw, L., 2019. Co-creation and archaeological prospection: LoCATE – The Local Community Archaeological Training and Equipment Project. In: Bonsall, J., ed. 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION 28 August-1 September 2019 Sligo, Ireland. NEW GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION, 161-163.
  • Garcia, A., Duckworth, C., Welham, K., Govantes-Edwards, D., Pitman, D., Alonso, M., Ríos, J.M., Jiménez, M.C., Montanari, E. and Moore, B., 2018. La producción cerámica en Granada entre la época medieval y moderna. Los talleres del secano de la Alhambra. In: International Workshop. Glaze Technology in the Western Mediterranean: Islamic and Christian traditions 25 January 2018 Museo Nacional de Cerámica y Artes Suntuarias “González Martí” de Valencia. Museo Nacional de Cerámica y Artes Suntuarias de Valencia.
  • Cannell, R., Bill, J., Cheetham, P. and Welham, K., 2015. The Gokstad Viking Trading Site: a voyage of physiochemical prospection. In: 11th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection 15-19 September 2015 Warsaw. Archaeologia Polona, 53, 438-439.
  • Papworth, H.E., Ford, A.L.J. and Welham, K., 2013. The assessment and application of historic stereo aerial photographs for evaluating archaeological earthwork reconstruction. In: RSPSoc 2013 3-6 September 2013 Glasgow.
  • Papworth, Welham, K., Ford, A.L.J. and Thackray, D., 2012. Investigating laser penetration depths of a NIR airborne laser scanner in very shallow water. In: Remote Sensing and Photgrammetry Society Annual Conference 2011 13-15 September 2011 Bournemouth University. , 361-367.
  • Bennett, R., Welham, K., Hill, R.A. and Ford, A.L.J., 2011. Pushing the sensors: how multi-sensor airborne survey can aid archaeological interpretation in non-arable landscapes. In: RSPSoc 2011: Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society Annual Conference 13-15 September 2011 Bournemouth, England.
  • Bennett, R., Welham, K., Hill, R.A. and Ford, A.L.J., 2010. Analysing the vegetation information content of airborne remotely sensed data to improve understanding of archaeological features. In: RSPSoc 2010: From The Sea-bed to the Cloud-tops (Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society) 1-3 September 2010 Cork, Ireland.
  • Bennett, R., Welham, K., Hill, R.A. and Ford, A.L.J., 2010. Multi-sensor airborne remote sensing techniques for archaeological survey and interpretation. In: International Aerial Archaeology Conference 15-18 September 2010 Bucharest, Romania.
  • Bennett, R., Welham, K., Hill, R.A. and Ford, A.L.J., 2009. Beyond the picturesque: analysing the information content of airborne remotely sensed data for understanding prehistoric sites. In: III International Conference On Remote Sensing In Archaeology 17-21 August 2009 Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • Bennett, R., Welham, K., Hill, R.A. and Ford, A.L.J., 2009. Beyond the picturesque: analysing the information content of airborne remotely sensed data for understanding prehistoric sites. In: 8th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection: Mémoire du sol, Espace des hommes 9-12 September 2009 Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France.
  • Bennett, R., Welham, K., Hill, R.A. and Ford, A.L.J., 2009. Analysing the information content of airborne remotely sensed data for archaeological prospection. In: International Aerial Archaeology Conference 25-26 September 2009 Siena, Italy.
  • Cheshir, K., Newland, B. and Welham, K., 2008. Using Wikis in Group Work to Facilitate the Production of Student E-Resources,. In: ALT-C 2008: Rethinking the digital divide. 15th International Conference of the Association for Learning Technology 9-11 September 2008 University of Leeds, England.
  • Doonan, R.C.P., Welham, K. et al., 2003. Specialisation and Spatialisation: The use of soil studies in defining the spatial articulation of Iron Age metallurgy. In: Fuleky, G., ed. Soils and Archaeology: papers of the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Soils and Archaeology 30 May-3 June 2001 Százhalombatta, Hungary. , 61-66 Oxford: Archaeopress.

Reports

  • Brown, A., Welham, K. and Shaw, L., 2023. REPORT ON DRONE-BASED LIDAR TRIALS, FERN FLAT, FAR NORTH DISTRICT, NORTHLAND, NZ. Unpublished Report.
  • Brown, A., Downes, J., Richards, C., Shaw, L., Torres Hochstetter, F. and Welham, K., 2023. PACIFIC ISLANDS ENDANGERED CULTURAL HERITAGE SURVEY: DOCUMENTING CULTURAL HERITAGE IN NIUE AND THE COOK ISLANDS. NIUE 2023 PILOT STUDY. n/a.
  • Brown, A., Downes, J., Richards, C., Shaw, L., Torres Hochstetter, F. and Welham, K., 2023. PACIFIC ISLANDS ENDANGERED CULTURAL HERITAGE SURVEY: DOCUMENTING CULTURAL HERITAGE IN NIUE AND THE COOK ISLANDS Atiu and Rarotonga Pilot Study May-June 2023. n/a.
  • Downes, J., Mullville, J., Richards, C. and Welham, K., 2018. Excavation of the Ara Metua (Ara Nui o Toi) at Arai te Tonga Preliminary report May – June 2018. unpublished report.
  • Downes, J., Richards, C., Lawrence, S., Torres Hochstetter, F. and Welham, K., 2017. Provisional Survey of Aitutaki, Cook islands Sites and Monuments May-June 2017. n/a.

Posters

PhD Students

  • Owen Kearn, 2022. Investigating & interpreting the sources of stone & ceramic building materials used in Roman Bath, (In progress)
  • Duncan Williams, 2024. Minimally-invasive Landscape Prospection Methods for Battlefield Archaeology: The Battle of Waterloo, (In progress)
  • David Gillespie
  • Hayley Roberts
  • Heather Tamminen, 2021. Virtual modelling of human remains using photogrammetry for presentation and preservation by record
  • Daniel Pascoe. Gunnery at Sea - HMS Invincible (1744)
  • Daniella Vos. Identifying Activity Areas in Neolithic Sites through Ethnographic Analysis of Phytoliths and Geochemical Elements
  • Ella Egberts. Early Hominin Technology, Chronology and Landscapes in North-West Europe
  • Rebecca Cannell. Physiochemical Past – Integrating Geochemical and Geophysical approaches to Site Location and Interpretation

Profile of Teaching UG

  • Artefact Studies
  • Material Worlds

Grants

  • Documenting cultural heritage in the Cook Islands and Niue - pilot study (Arcadia, 01 Nov 2022). Awarded
  • Rarotonga and the colonisation of eastern Polynesia (Society of Antiquaries, 01 Apr 2021). Awarded
  • Virtual Avebury (AHRC, EPSRC, 14 Feb 2018). Awarded
  • Echoes from the deep: modern reflections on our maritime past (Leverhulme Trust, 01 Jan 2018). Awarded
  • Making Land: The Dynamics of Frontier Settlement in East Polynesia (Leverhulme Trust, 01 Feb 2017). Awarded
  • Understanding the relationships between high-temperature industries and early Islamic urbanisation. (British Academy, 31 Aug 2016). Awarded
  • Block Grant Partnership Capacity Building Scheme (AHRC, 01 Oct 2011). Awarded
  • Rapa Nui: Landscapes of Construction (AHRC, 01 Aug 2011). Awarded
  • Swahili Town Planning: The Songo Mnara Urban Landscape (AHRC, 01 Jun 2011). Awarded
  • Royal Society International Travel Grant (Royal Society, 04 Oct 2010). Awarded
  • Glastonbury Abbey - Saxon Glassworking (AHRC, 01 Nov 2009). Awarded
  • Assessing archaeological landscapes in coastal zones. Evaluation of terrestrial and airborne laser scanning survey techniques. (National Trust, 01 Nov 2009). Awarded
  • A Multisensor Approach to Analysing Archaeological Remains (NERC, 08 Oct 2009). Awarded
  • Geophysical Survey - Songo Mnara Tanzania (The British Institute in Eastern Africa, 12 Jun 2009). Awarded
  • Google under the Earth: Seeing Beneath Stonehenge (Google, 31 May 2009). Awarded
  • Royal Society International Travel Grant (Royal Society, 26 Mar 2008). Awarded
  • Stonehenge Riverside Project (AHRC, 01 Mar 2006). Awarded

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • Career Fair-Glenmoor and Winton Aacedemies (08 Oct 2015)

Conference Presentations

  • 13th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection, Co-creation and archaeological prospection: LoCATE – The Local Community Archaeological Training and Equipment Project, 28 Aug 2019, Sligo, Ireland
  • The 13th Nordic Conference on the Application of Scientific Methods in Archaeology (SMIA) 21-23rd of January 2019, Stavanger, Norway The third science revolution in archaeology: New data, new questions?, The state of archaeological science in the 21st century, 21 Jan 2019, Stavanger, Norway
  • Near Surface Geophysics Group, LoCATE - The Local Community Archaeological Training and Equipment Project, 04 Dec 2018, London
  • Glaze Technology in the Western Mediterranean: Islamic and Christian traditions, La producción cerámica en Granada entre la época medieval y la moderna. Los talleres del Secano de la Alhambra a la luz de las recientes excavaciones arqueológicas, 25 Jan 2018, Valencia, Spain
  • UK Archaeological Sciences, Hotspots in the Landscape: the application of geochemical prospection to locate high-temperature production in easily Islamic Towns, 05 Apr 2017, London
  • 41st International Symposium on Archaeometry, New prospects: geophysical and geochemical survey at the 10th century city of Madinat al-Zahra, Spain, 15 May 2016, Kalamata, Greece
  • Computer Applications in Archaeology - International, Seeing things differently.  The use of combined geochemical and geophysical prospection techniques to investigate early Islamic town planning., 29 Mar 2016, Oslo, Norway
  • Computer Applications in Archaeology - International, Using Google Earth applications to enhance public engagement with cultural heritage: an evaluation of Seeing Beneath Stonehenge., 29 Mar 2016, Oslo, Norway
  • Computer Applications in Archaeology - UK, Seeing things differently.  The use of combined geochemical and geophysical prospection techniques to investigate early Islamic town planning., 05 Mar 2016, Leicester, UK
  • 20th Congress of the International Association for the History of Glass, Glass in medieval Spain: a long-term perspective on knowledge transfer, 06 Sep 2015, Fribourg, Switzerland
  • 9th International conference on Easter Island and the Pacific, Care for the future? Exploring relationships between education, knowledge exchange and heritage management in Rapa Nui, 21 Jun 2015, Berlin, Germany
  • 9th International conference on Easter Island and the Pacific, Making the invisible visible: recent applications of archaeological prospection and 3D recording methods on Rapa Nui, 21 Jun 2015, Berlin, Germany
  • Computer Applications in Archaeology - Visegrad, Integration of remote sensing data - a case study of cultural heritage management, 28 May 2015, Cieszyn, Poland
  • Computer Applications in Archaeology, An integrated approach to understanding Swahili archaeology. A case study from the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Songo Mnara, Tanzania, 30 Mar 2015, Sienna, Italy
  • Computer Applications in Archaeology, A comparison of low altitude imaging from remotely piloted aircraft, and Lidar. A case study from the New Forest National Park, 30 Mar 2015, Sienna, Italy
  • Near Surface Geophysics Group - Recent work in archaeological geophysics, Geophysical survey at Puna Pau, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), 02 Dec 2014, London, UK
  • 8th International conference on Easter Island and the Pacific, Life after Roggeveen: The archaeology of contact on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), 09 Jul 2012, Santa Rosa, USA
  • Society for American Archaeology, An integrated exploration of the Stonehenge landscape, 26 Mar 2008, Vancouver, Canada

Qualifications

  • SFHEA in Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Higher Education Academy, 2018)
  • PhD in The Compositional Homogeneity of Potash-Lime-Silic (University of Sheffield (NERC funded), 2002)
  • MSc in Archaeomaterials (University of Sheffield, 1997)
  • BSc (Hons) in Applied Chemistry (University of Portsmouth, 1992)

Memberships

  • Society of Antiquaries, Fellow (2015-),
  • International Association for Archaeological Prospection, Member,
  • Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC), Member,