Philip Karsgaard
Philip studied Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh, in the course of the degree becoming a staff member of the Tell Jezreel Project, then jointly run by the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem and the University of Tel Aviv. This started his engagement with the archaeology of South-West Asia as an excavator and surveyor. He has supervised excavations at a wide variety of prehistoric and historic sites in Jordan, Turkey and Syria. He supervised areas in the University of Edinburgh excavations at Tell Jerablus Tahtani, Syria and the University of Cambridge research project at Tell Brak, Syria, where he was also involved in the Tell Brak Sustaining Area Survey. He conducted the suburban survey of Tell Brak with Jason Ur of the University of Harvard, the results of which were later published in Science.
Philip has also had extensive experience in developer-lead and commercial archaeology in the UK, including in major national infrastructure projects, from initial walk-over surveys to evaluations, full excavation and subsequent reporting. He acted as supervisor and project archaeologist for Headland Archaeology on a range of sites, including the full excavation of a wood-trough Burnt Mound, Iron Age roundhouses, and platform settlements. Since joining Addyman Archaeology in 2016 he has supervised excavations in Edinburgh, including at Buccleuch Place and Meadow Lane for the University of Edinburgh, Panmure House in the Canongate for Heriot Watt Business School, and at Graham Street, Leith, each of those sites revealing new data from the medieval to industrial periods. His Historic Building Recording projects include the Sir Clough Williams-Ellis designed Causeway Memorial School in Co. Antrim for the National Trust, the extensive 20th century residential Prudhoe Hospital in Northumberland, and a William Playfair-designed house in Hillside Crescent, Edinburgh. He is also mainly responsible for digital surveying and photogrammetry recording projects and in bringing major excavation projects to publication.