Jim is a professional archaeologist and heritage consultant with particular interests in landscape archaeology, community archaeology and historic farm buildings. Outside archaeology Jim is a keen musician and hillwalker, and can also be found dangling from rock faces around the north of England.

Jim’s family are from the Yorkshire Dales, and he studied undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in archaeology at Newcastle University before relocating to near Manchester and beginning work at an archaeological and historic environment practice in the Derbyshire Peak District. His early career saw extensive experience on sites of all periods across the East Midlands, South and West Yorkshire, the North West and extensive work in Northumberland, kindling a deep love for the hugely rewarding aspects of public archaeology.

In 2012, Jim moved back to his home area in North Yorkshire with the aim of providing bespoke historic environment services to clients of all kinds and to promote and deliver community projects in the local area. Since that time, Jim has helped set up and delivered successful projects for volunteers at Kiplin Hall, Thornton-le-Street, the Upper Nidderdale Landscape Partnership, High Carlingill in Cumbria and Richmond Castle, among others.

Over the course of his career, Jim has developed research interests in an eclectic variety of areas including historic farming, the northern Roman frontier, the development of Anglian Yorkshire, late prehistoric upland landscapes, post-medieval bricks and 20th-century military sites. Jim is also no stranger to the public presentation of archaeology, having appeared on local television and radio, Meet the Ancestors, Time Team, Digging for Britain, The Great British Dig and Countryfile.