Nigel Baker has been a professional urban archaeologist since the late 1970s. Excavations and historic buildings work led to PhD research at Nottingham University. Excavation projects at Shrewsbury Abbey were followed by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship on Birmingham's English Medieval Towns & the Church project. Between 1994 and 2005 work as an archaeological consultant included principal responsibility for English Heritage's Urban Archaeological Databases for Shrewsbury and for Worcester. Nigel Baker is currently working for Herefordshire Archaeology on the UAD for Hereford and on studies of the county's market towns.
The Old Market Hall, Shrewsbury (with W A Champion, R K Morriss, P A Stamper et al), Archaeological Journal, 2007 (in press)
Shrewsbury - An Archaeological Assessment, Oxbow Books/English Heritage, 2007 (in press)
2004 (with R A Holt): Urban Growth and the Medieval Church: Gloucester and Worcester, Ashgate, Aldershot
2003: Shrewsbury: archaeological discoveries from a medieval town, Shropshire Books
2002 (Editor/author): Shrewsbury Abbey: studies in the archaeology and history of an urban monastery, Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society monograph, no.2
Date Profile Last Updated: 21/12/2006
