CURRICULUM VITAE

HEATON, Michael John

DoB:                 9th May 1959, Warrington, Cheshire, U.K.

Status:             Married, British citizen, Sole Trader (Vat Registered)

Address:           Michael Heaton Heritage Consultants, Eversfield House, Station Road,

WARMINSTER,   Wiltshire. BA12 9BP

                                    phone/fax:   01985 847791

                                    mobile:       07710 457024

                                    e-mail:        mike@michaelheaton.co.uk

Insurances        Goss & Co, Clarendon House, Queens Road, READING, Berkshire. RG1 4BN

Banking            National Westminster, 80 Market Place, WARMINSTER, Wiltshire. BA12 9AW.

Accountant       Duncan Pierce, Marsh Accountancy, 34, Market Place, WARMINSTER, Wiltshire. BA12 9AN.

EDUCATION

2004-2007 (p/t)            UWE Bristol. Grad Dip Building Surveying (Distinction and RICS Prize)

2002-2003 (p/t)            City College, Bath. City and Guilds 3D Autocad (43501-3)

1998 - 1999 (p/t)          City College, Bath. City and Guilds,  AutoCAD (43501-1)

1996-1998 (p/t)            University of Bournemouth.  PgDip  Building Conservation  

1977-1981                   University of Bradford B Tech (Hons) Archaeological Sciences.

1971-1977                   Sandbach School, SANDBACH, Cheshire. 6 'O' Levels, 3CSE's (1975); 3 ‘A’ Levels (1977)                                       

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Member (MIFA): Institute of Field Archaeologists. 

Member (IHBC):  Institute of Historic Building Conservation

Trainee member:  Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

Certificate of Training in The Implementation of  Health and Safety Management Regulations       1992 (Hinton & Higgs Ltd) .

Certificate of Training in Project Management in Archaeology. (English Heritage/Soton Univ/Bournemouth Univ) 

ASSOCIATIONS

Director: Warminster Preservation Trust Ltd.

Trustee: Warminster Civic Trust

Trustee: Construction History Society (Council member)

Member: Vernacular Architecture Group

Advisor: Wild Trout Trust  (riparian habitat diversity projects)  

Member, Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings

Member, Ecclesiological Society

Member,  Wilts. Archaeol  and Natural History Society

Member, Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society

Member (2001 – 2004) CCSJC  working group on Conditions of Contract for Archaeological  Investigations.  Published by Thomas Telford 2004  

EMPLOYMENT

Current:           Sole Proprietor, Michael Heaton Heritage Consultants . Providing professional and technical support in the planning and management of works affecting historic buildings and archaeological sites;  Archaeological assessment and evaluation of  development proposals;  Metric survey, palaeopathological analysis and recording of historic buildings; Consultancy and Project Management of archaeological projects.

                        Archaeological Advisor to  The Wild Trout Trust, an environmental charity promoting riparian habitat diversity.

                        Member, Historic Churches Commission for the Catholic dioceses of southern England.     

                        Priory Archaeologist, Christchurch Priory, Christchurch, Dorset.

                        Visiting Lecturer (2008). Faculty of the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol

To November 1996:      Senior Project Officer,  Wessex Archaeology, Old Sarum, Salisbury.

To August 1986:           Freelance archaeological supervisor/excavator

To July 1981:               Education and Vocational experience.

PERSONAL INTERESTS

European history, particularly its manifestations in natural and man-made heritage, and the origins of the English landscape; Angling, principally chalk stream dry-fly, but the spey casting is improving; Music, mainly 18th century Germans and early 20th century Americans; Fencing (epee). Organiser of each year's Construction History Society exhibition at the Great Dorset Steam Fair

PUBLICATIONS and CONFERENCE PAPERS

Excluding short summaries, interim notes, contributions  and  non-publication planning reports.   Summaries of some non-publication reports are posted at:  www.archaeology.demon.co.uk/list.html

Heaton, M.J., 1983,  'Diggers can't be choosers', The Guardian  (Essay on the working conditions of  archaeological excavators)

Heaton, M.J., 1985,  'Crossed wires on protecting the past', The Guardian  (Essay on the complex of issues arising from the events at Stonehenge 1985)

Heaton, M.J., 1990,  'Carl Heron', The Daily Telegraph   (Essay on archaeological research at Cardiff University)

Healy, F., Heaton, M.J., and Allen, M.J., 1992, 'Excavation of a Mesolithic Site at Thatcham, Berkshire', PPS, 58.

Heaton, M.J., and Hearne, C.M., 1992, 'Site Investigations at Beddington Lane, Sutton, Surrey,' The London Archaeologist, 7, No. 1

Heaton, M.J., 1992,  'Two Mid-Saxon Grain Driers and Later Medieval Features at Chantry Fields, Gillingham, Dorset' Proc Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc, 114.

Hawkes, J.W., and Heaton, M.J., 1993,  Jennings Yard, Windsor: a Closed-Shaft Garderobe   and Associated Medieval Structures,  Wessex Archaeology Monograph Series 3

Hearne, C.M., and Heaton, M.J., 1994, 'Excavation of a Late Bronze Age Settlement in the Upper  Thames valley at Shornecote Quarry near Cirencester' TBGAS CXII

McKinley, J.I., and Heaton, M.J. 1996, 'Maddington Farm, Shrewton: A Romano-British Farmstead and   Associated Cemetery'  WAM 89   

Mepham, L. N., and Heaton, M.J., 1997, ' A pottery kiln at Ashampstead, Berkshire',  Medieval Ceramics

Bellamy, P., Davies, S.M., Woodward, P.J., and Heaton, M.J., 2002  'Excavations at   Alington Avenue, Dorchester 1985', Proc Dorset Natural Hist Soc Monograph Series.

Heaton, M.J., and Cleal., R.M.J..,  2000, 'Beaker pottery from five pits at Crescent      Copse, Salisbury Plain, and the effects of arboreal fungi on archaeological remains' , WAM 93 

Heaton, M.J., and Moffatt, R.W., 2002, ‘ A possible outer bailey ditch to Marlborough Castle....etc.,  WAM 95 

Heaton, M.J., 2003, ‘Neolithic Pits at the Beehive, Salisbury,’ WAMS  96

Heaton,M.J., and Davenport, P., 2004, ‘ A Late medieval Timber Frame building at 22 High Street, Bath.’, PSANHS

Heaton, M.J., and Moffatt, R.W., 2004, ‘Excavations at Barton Farm, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire.’ WAMS 97

Heaton, M.J., 2004, ‘Habitat improvement and archaeology’, Salmo Trutta  7

Heaton, M.J., 2004, ‘Mells Barns’, Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, 147

Heaton, M.J., Hinton, P., and Meddens, F., 2006, ‘Finishing some one else’s story’, The Archaeologist,  59

Heaton, M.J., 2006, ‘Costing the earth….Alternatives to the ‘Fixed Price’’, The Archaeologist, 59.

Heaton, M.J., 2006, ‘Were House, Warminster: The oldest fire station in the world?’, Wiltshire Natural History and Archaeological Magazine,  99

Heaton, M.J., 2006, ‘Show me yours: Cost comparison in Archaeology’, The Archaeologist,  60

Heaton, M.J., 2007, ‘Abbotsbury Barn Roof’, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 128

Heaton, M.J., 2007, ‘W(h)ither the profession?, The Archaeologist,  67

Heaton, M.J., 2008, 'W(h)ither the Profession II: The economic, legal and organisational context of successful commercial archaeology' (Paper given at Annual Conference of the Institute of Field Archaeologists, Swansea University, 18-20 March 2008) 

Heaton, M.J., 2008, 'Crinolines and Scaffolding: The value of church records to the historical study of women in construction', Construction History Society Newsletter,  No. 81 May 2008. (ISSN 0951 9203) www.constructionhistory.co.uk

Heaton, M.J., 2009, Building palaeopathology: practical applications of archaeological building analysis, Structural Survey , Vol 27, No.2.

Heaton, M.J., 2009, ‘They don’t build ‘em like they used to: the defective flyers of Christchurch Priory’, Construction History Society Newsletter No. 84 April 2009.