Trevor
Ashwin: curriculum
vitae
Higher education
1981-4: University of York: BA Archaeology and History (Joint Honours), 2(i).Current employment
Since February 2002: freelance editor, illustrator, typesetter and proofreader. I specialise in archaeology and history, and in environmental and development studies. My activities may be summarised as follows.
1. Archaeology and history
Editing and typesetting academic monographs and other publications on behalf of the East Anglian Archaeology series, Heritage Marketing and Publications, Gifford, the Norfolk Archaeological Unit and others.
Since 1996, Joint Hon. Editor (with A.J. Davison) of Norfolk Archaeology, the journal produced annually since 1846 by the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society. This contains a mixture of archaeological, historical and antiquarian articles and reports, many of them illustrated.
Major current projects include editing reports on excavations at St Pancras station, London, in advance of construction of the new Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Gifford Archaeology), and on the Romano-British settlement at Scole, on the Norfolk-Suffolk border (Norfolk Archaeological Unit/Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service).
I act as a referee for archaeological reports, particularly those within my own particular specialism -- British prehistory. I also undertake some teaching and consultancy.
I co-edited and fully illustrated a new edition of the Historical Atlas of Norfolk (first edition published 1993 by Norfolk Museums Service), published by Phillimore & Co. in October 2005.
2. Environmental/development studies
Work for Curran Publishing Services, Norwich, as a copy-editor and proofreader, most notably on UNESCO's Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. I edited 25 major articles in the three published EOLSS volumes, and nearly 50 contributions to the supporting EOLSS web site. Subject areas have included managing environmental hazards and protecting biodiversity; development education; exploring the concept of sustainable development; water management and conservation; geology and hydrology; agriculture and forestry; sustainable transportation and power generation; international disputes and conflict resolution.
Other work for UNESCO has included editing material for the International Hydrological Programme. This collaborative project contributes to the World Water Assessment Programme, within the framework of a joint UNESCO-Green Cross International project, 'From Potential Conflict to Co-operation Potential (PCCP): Water for Peace'.
Work for Norfolk Education and Action for Development, a development education centre in Norwich, has included editing and designing reports and catalogues, creating posters, leaflets and other promotional matter, and producing a series of information panels publicising NEAD's activities. I have also worked for the trade justice campaigning organisation Banana Link.
3. Other editing work
This has included copy-editing academic and business textbooks for Palgrave Macmillan.Past employment
November 1989-September 2001: Norfolk Archaeological Unit. Project Manager (November 1989-July 1996); Senior Project Manager (July 1996-2001).
The NAU (now NAU Archaeology) is one of East Anglia's oldest-established archaeological contracting organisations. Until 2005 it was part of Norfolk County Council's Museums and Archaeology Service.
- Directed numerous excavation and research projects in advance of trunk road construction. Other high-profile projects included the excavation of an early Pleistocene fossil elephant from the beach at West Runton, Norfolk (1995).
- Principal author of many publication reports.
- Held general responsibility for graphics and display work, IT and report editing.
- Edited research and technical reports issued to commercial clients and other funding bodies.
Publications
This list does not include all short notes or book reviews. My drawings and photographs have appeared in many other publications.1996
- 'Neolithic and Bronze Age Norfolk: looking back, looking forward', in S. Margeson, B. Ayers and S. Heywood (eds), A Festival of Norfolk Archaeology, 11-20. Norwich: Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society.
- 'The West Runton Elephant', Current Archaeology 149, 164-8 (with A.J. Stuart).
- 'Neolithic and Bronze Age Norfolk', Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 62, 41-62.
- 'Excavation of an Iron Age site at Park Farm, Silfield, Wymondham', Norfolk Archaeology XLII, 241-82.
1998
- 'Excavations at Salter's Lane, Longham, 1990: Neolithic and Bronze Age features and finds', Norfolk Archaeology XLIII, 1-31.
1999
- 'Studying Iron Age settlement in Norfolk', in J. Davies and T. Williamson (eds), Land of the Iceni: the Iron Age of Northern East Anglia, 100-24. Norwich: Centre of East Anglian Studies, University of East Anglia.
- 'The Launditch and its Setting. Excavations at the Launditch, Beeston with Bittering, and Iron Age features and finds from its vicinity', Norfolk Archaeology XLIII, 217-56 (with M. Flitcroft).
2000
- Excavations on the Norwich Southern Bypass, 1989-91. Part I: Excavations at Bixley, Caistor St Edmund and Trowse, Norfolk, East Anglian Archaeology 91 (with S.J. Bates).
2001
- 'Middleton Mount. Excavations in the Eastern Bailey of Middleton Castle, 1987', Norfolk Archaeology XLIII, 645-55.
- 'Exploring Bronze Age Norfolk: Longham and Bittering', in J. Brück (ed.), Bronze Age Landscapes: Tradition and Transformation, 23-32. Oxford: Oxbow.
2003
- 'Prehistoric pottery', in M. Brennand and M. Taylor, 'The survey and excavation of a Bronze Age timber circle at Holme next the Sea, Norfolk, 1998-9', Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 69, 1-85
2005
- An Historical Atlas of Norfolk, 3rd edition. Chichester: Phillimore & Co. (editor, with Alan Davison)
2006
- 'A possible henge monument at Costessey', Norfolk Archaeology XLV, 95-7
2007
- 'Hearth and home in prehistoric Norfolk', Journal of the Norfolk Historic Buildings Group 3, 5-28
Available
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An Historical Atlas of Norfolk,
3rd edition, 2005
edited by Trevor Ashwin and Alan Davison, illustrated by Trevor Ashwin
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