Graham Hull

Graham Hull graduated in archaeology from Reading University, UK in 1995 and worked in the commercial

Graham Hull at Caherconnell

archaeological sector in southern England until 2000 when he moved to Ireland to continue his archaeological career. Graham’s interests in archaeology are wide as the developer-led environment does not allow for the luxury of period specialisation. Outside of archaeology, Graham enjoys motorcycling and travel.

TVAS (Ireland) Ltd is an archaeological consultancy based in Co. Clare, Ireland. The company was set up in 2001 by Graham Hull and Kate Taylor as a response to the ‘Celtic Tiger’ development boom. The majority of the company’s work has been on state-funded infrastructure projects such as roads and water schemes. Private development provides a smaller part of the company’s work. There are sister companies Thames Valley Archaeological Services Ltd located in Reading, UK and TVAS (South) Ltd in Brighton, UK.

Archaeological career:

2001 onwards: Company director, TVAS (Ireland) Ltd

2003-2009: Major TVAS (Ireland) projects. Senior Archaeologist:

* N18 Ennis Bypass Contract 6 (testing – 81,067m²), Contracts 5-7 (resolution of 27 sites). €724k

* N21 Castleisland to Abbeyfeale RIS, Contract 2 (resolution of 5 sites and testing),

* Limerick Southern Ring Road Phase II N Contract (Phase 1: testing – 105,366m². Phase 2: resolution of 10 sites) €723k

* N21 Castleisland Bypass. Testing

* N7 Limerick-Nenagh HQDC, Resolution of 19 sites, testing of 15 areas, monitoring of construction works in bog (one year) €3.1m

* N5 Longford Bypass testing (26032m²)

* Also numerous smaller consultancy, assessment, excavation and monitoring projects

* Numerous desk-based assessments and contributions to EIAs

2002-2003: Licensed director, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd (MGL).

* Gas Pipeline to the West, 62 licensed excavations in Co. Clare, Limerick & Westmeath

2001: Assistant director, MGL.

* River Nore Drainage, Kilkenny

2000-2001: Assistant director and project manager, Valerie J Keeley Ltd.

* N18 Carrigoran-Dromoland Road, Co. Clare

1995-2000: Thames Valley Archaeological Services Ltd, 47-49 De Beauvoir Rd, Reading UK (TVAS)

* Private sector archaeology in UK PPG16 environment

* Project manager 1998-2000.

* Archaeological supervisor 1996-1998

* Archaeological assistant 1995-1996

Experience:

Fourteen years post-graduate field experience, directing excavation, assessment, and monitoring in UK (5 years) and Ireland (9 years). Rural and urban. Prehistoric to post-medieval.

Editor ‘The Other Clare’ 2009-present

Member of Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland 2001

Member of Institute of Field Archaeologists 1999

Burren INSTAR Associate Investigator 2008

Publications: Graham Hull

Hull, G, 1997, Medieval deposits at the rear of the Queen’s Hotel, Market Place, Newbury Berkshire, Berkshire Archaeological Journal LXXV, 93-4

Hull, G, 1999, ‘Trellech, Monmouthshire’ in Archaeology in Wales

Hull, G, 2000, A Middle Bronze Age Field Ditch? Excavations at Bankside Close, Isleworth, Journal of London and Middlesex Archaeological Society IL, 1-14

Hull, G, 2001, A Late Bronze Age Ringwork, Pits and Later Features at Thrapston, Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire Archaeology XXIX, 73-92

Hull, G, 2002, Barkingwic? Saxon and medieval features adjacent to Barking Abbey, Essex , Essex Archaeology and History 33, 157-90

Hull, G, 2003, The excavation and analysis of an 18th -century deposit of anatomical remains and chemical apparatus from the rear of the first Ashmolean Museum (now the Museum of the History of Science), Broad Street, Oxford, Post Medieval Archaeology 37/1, 1-28

Hull, G, 2005, ‘Brick kilns’, Archaeology Ireland, Winter 2005, Vol 19, No.4, Issue 74, 31-3

Hull, G, 2006, ‘A Medieval Tannery at 75, Ock Street, Abingdon, Oxfordshire’ in Anthony, S, Hull, G, Pine, J and Taylor, K, Excavations in Medieval Abingdon and Drayton, Oxfordshire, TVAS monograph 8, Reading, 4-39

Hull, G, 2006, ‘A later medieval or post-medieval structure at Derrylea, near Clifden, Co. Galway’, Galway Archaeological and Historical Society Journal 58, 171-5

Hull, G, 2007, ‘A Mid-19th Century View of Galway City’, Galway Archaeological and Historical Society Journal 59, 185

Hull, G, 2007, ‘Excavation of a Bronze Age round-house at Knockdomny, Co. Westmeath’, Journal of Irish Archaeology XV, 2006, 1-14

Hull, G, 2007, ‘A wooden bowl belonging to our prehistoric ancestors’, Seanda 2, National Roads Authority, Dublin, 6

Hull, G, 2009, ‘Maps and Views of County Clare in the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office’ The Other Clare 33, 72-76

Hull, G and Comber, M, 2008, ‘Caherconnell, Co. Clare, and cashel chronology’, Archaeology Ireland, Winter 2008, Vol 22, No.4, Issue 86, 30-34

Hull, G and Preston, S, 2002, Excavation of Late Saxon, Medieval and Post-Medieval deposits on land at Proctor’s Yard, Bicester, Oxoniensia, LXVII, 181-98

Hull, G and Preston, S, 2002, Middle Iron Age occupation at Mawsley New Village, Cransley Lodge, Kettering, Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire Archaeology XXX, 1-20

Hull, G and Hall, M, 2003, Excavation of Medieval Features at St. Andrews Church Vicarage, Sonning, Berkshire, Berkshire Archaeological Journal LXXVI, 73-93

Hull, G, and Joubert, S, 2008, ‘Medieval monastic occupation and post-medieval military activity at Clare Abbey, Co. Clare’, The Other Clare 32, 21-6

Hull, G and Joubert, S, 2008, ‘Medieval monastic occupation and post-medieval military activity at Clare Abbey, Co. Clare’, in J O’Sullivan and M Stanley (eds), Roads, Rediscovery and Research: Proceedings of a public seminar on archaeological discoveries on national road schemes, August 2007, National Roads Authority, 59-70

Hull, G and Taylor, K, 2005, The Archaeology of the Ennis Bypass, The Other Clare 29, 35-41

Hull, G and Taylor, K, 2007, ‘Archaeological sites on the route of the N21 Castleisland to Abbeyfeale Road Improvement Scheme, Co. Kerry’, Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Series 2, Vol 6, 2006, 5-59

Hull, G and Taylor, K, 2007, ‘N18 Ennis Bypass and N85 Western Relief Road: Summary of the final archaeological results’, The Other Clare 31, 23-9

Taylor, K and Hull, G, 2002, Excavation of post-medieval features and a dump of late 18th century artefacts from 5/6-7 Market Street, Oxford, Oxoniensia LXVII, 313-57

Weaver, S and Hull, G, 2000, Saxon, Medieval and Post-medieval Deposits at Waterperry House, Waterperry, Near Wheatley, Oxfordshire, Oxoniensia LXV, 333-43

Weaver, S and Hull, G, 2005, ‘Medieval and post-medieval deposits at Sir Christopher Wren’s House Hotel, 52-54 Thames Street, Windsor,’. In S. Preston (ed) Reading and Windsor, Old and New, Thames Valley Archaeological Services Monograph 7, TVAS, Reading, 135-48

Contributions to: Grogan, E, O’Donnell, L and Johnston, P, 2007, The Bronze Age Landscapes of the Pipeline to the West: An integrated archaeological and environmental assessment, Wordwell, Bray

Comber, M and Hull, G, (accepted), Excavations at Caherconnell, Burren, Co. Clare. Implications for Cashel Chronology and Gaelic Settlement, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C

Hull, G and Preston, S, (in prep), The Excavation of a Medieval Toft at 1263-75 High Road, Whetstone, London Borough of Whetstone (Journal of London and Middlesex Archaeological Society)

Hull, G and Taylor, K, (in prep), The archaeology of the N18 Ennis Bypass and N85 Western Relief Road, Co. Clare (NRA monograph series)