Anthony Taylor

Project Manager (Geomatics)

Anthony has over eight years’ experience within commercial archaeology and has worked on wide range of projects, both as a specialist Survey and Data Officer and as a Project Officer. His excavation experience includes multi-phase, multi-period settlement sites on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route, an Iron Age enclosure and associated roundhouse settlement at Lower Callerton, Newcastle and a post-medieval industrial mill at Gorgie Road, Edinburgh, as well as numerous Trial Trenching, Watching Brief and Historic Building Recording contracts across the UK.

As a surveyor, Anthony led the survey strategy and training on the A14 enabling works, at that time the largest commercial excavation in the UK.  He successfully introduced a digital survey programme across the scheme and trained a core team of surveyors in its use. In 2016 he was lead surveyor during the photogrammetric recording of over 2,000 inhumations at St Peter’s Burial Ground, Blackburn – the first commercial use of this technique on a large scale.

Anthony has a particular interest in digital recording techniques and innovation. In 2017 as part of the HS2 enabling works, he led the first commercial trial of paperless recording techniques on a deeply stratified urban cemetery site at St James’ Gardens, Euston.  Since then he has been responsible for the delivery and development of paperless recording on large-scale Trial Trenching contracts – most recently the A1 Morpeth to Ellington dualling scheme in 2021. He will use this experience to continue the development and implementation of innovative digital recording techniques at AOC Archaeology, whilst leading the core work of the Geomatics Team.