• Antoine Giacometti

    Project Manager

    Antoine Giacometti has worked as an archaeologist since 1995, and specialises in the archaeology of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and industrial archaeology. He established Archaeology Plan consultancy in 2011.

    contact: antoine@archaeologyplan.com

  • Steve McGlade

    Project Manager

    Steven McGlade is an archaeological director and has worked in archaeology since 2003, having previously studied archaeology at NUI Galway. He has experience working in both the commercial and research sectors in Ireland and Peru, and was the publication assistant for the Western Stone Forts Project while working for the Discovery Programme. He joined Archaeology Plan consultancy in 2014.

    contact: steve@archaeologyplan.com

  • Philippa Barry

    Director

    Philippa Barry has worked in commercial and research archaeology since 2010. She has a degree in Law and German, a HDip in Archaeology and an MA in Human Osteology. She provides planning consultancy advice and leads monitoring and excavation programmes. She worked on the Late Iron Age and Roman Ireland project for the Discovery Programme. She is joint Hon. Gen. Sec. for the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and a committee member of IAPO. She has extensive experience on urban and rural site types of all ages, in Ireland and abroad.

    contact: philippa@archaeologyplan.com

  • Jordan Hanson

    Director

    Jordan has worked as an archaeologist since 2016, working on urban and rural sites in both commercial and research settings. He holds a BA Joint Major in Archaeology with Greek & Roman Civilisation, an MA in Archaeology, and he is a qualified archaeological diver. Jordan has also worked on various sites in the Aegean Sea, including Keros and Daskalio in the Cyclades, and the Minoan sites at Priniatikos Pyrgos and Petras in Crete.

    contact: jordan@archaeologyplan.com

  • Siobhain Ruddy

    Assistant Director

    Siobhain has worked in archaeology since 2007 after studying archaeology and classical civilisations at NUI Galway. She has extensive experience on both dry and wetland sites and covering all archaeological periods from the Neolithic to the Industrial Era. She has also worked on Iron Age sites in Ethiopia and Romano-British sites in England.

    contact: siobhain@archaeologyplan.com

  • Graham Nevin

    Site Supervisor

    Graham has worked as a commercial archaeologist since 2019, after receiving a BA (Hons) in Ancient History and Archaeology from Trinity College Dublin and an MSc in Material Culture Studies from Leiden University. He previously worked with Leiden University on experimental archaeology projects including prehistoric tool and use wear analysis. He has experience on urban and rural sites of varying eras in Ireland carrying out excavations and post excavation activities. In 2021 he began working with Archaeology Plan.

    contact: graham@archaeologyplan.com

  • Alistair Branagh

    GIS Specialist

    Alistair has been working in commercial archaeology since 2017 after studying archaeology at the University of Glasgow and completing an MSc in World Heritage Management and Conservation at University College Dublin. He has worked on rural and urban sites across the UK and Ireland undertaking archaeological excavation, GPS survey and monitoring as well as post-excavation work with a particular emphasis on GIS and digitising illustrations.

    contact: alistair@archaeologyplan.com

  • Christina Hughes

    Post Excavation & Office Manager

    Christina Hughes has been working in commercial archaeology since 2017, having previously studied her BA in Archaeology in University College Dublin. She has worked on both urban and rural sites of all periods in Ireland and abroad as both site and post-ex supervisor. In 2019 she worked on the Early Medieval Iron Crafts (EMIC) research project in conjunction with UCD. Christina first began working with Archaeology Plan in 2018 and took on the role of Post Ex & Office Manager with the company in 2021.

    contact: christina@archaeologyplan.com