Jon Henderson

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• workDepartment of Archaeology
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
• work0115 951 4842
• fax0115 951 4812
• jon.henderson@nottingham.ac.uk

Expertise Summary

My main areas of research lie within the settlement archaeology of the European Iron Age, with a particular focus on the Atlantic regions of Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany and western Iberia. I direct excavations of Iron Age sites in Caithness as part of the Caithness Broch Landscapes Project. I am also actively involved in underwater archaeology and in 2004 established the Underwater Archaeology Research Centre at Nottingham. I have extensive experience of underwater operations involving monitoring, survey and excavation and have a particular expertise in the study of freshwater lake dwellings. The application of computers and laser scanning in archaeological field survey forms a further interest and I am currently the Academic Supervisor of a Knowledge Transfer Project working with AOC Archaeology developing high precision survey techniques for archaeology. I am a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and a Member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists.

Recent Publications

• HENDERSON, J.C., 2007. Presenting someone elses past: communities, identities and legacies.
• HENDERSON, J.C., 2007. The Atlantic Iron Age: settlement and identity in the first millennium BC. London: Routledge.
• HENDERSON, J.C., 2007. The Atlantic West in the Early Iron Age. In: HASELGROVE, C.,POPE, R., eds. The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 306-327
• HENDERSON, J.C., 2007. Recognising complexity and realizing the potential of Scottish Crannogs. In: BARBER, J., CLARKE, C., CRONE, A., HALE, A., HENDERSON, J., HOUSLEY, R., SANDS, R., SHERIDAN, A., eds. Archaeology From The Wetlands: Proceedings of the 11th WARP Conference,Edinburgh 2005. pp. 231-241

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• HENDERSON, J.C., 2007. Presenting someone elses past: communities, identities and legacies.
• HENDERSON, J.C., 2007. The Atlantic Iron Age: settlement and identity in the first millennium BC. London: Routledge.
• HENDERSON, J.C., 2007. The Atlantic West in the Early Iron Age. In: HASELGROVE, C.,POPE, R., eds. The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 306-327
• HENDERSON, J.C., 2007. Recognising complexity and realizing the potential of Scottish Crannogs. In: BARBER, J., CLARKE, C., CRONE, A., HALE, A., HENDERSON, J., HOUSLEY, R., SANDS, R., SHERIDAN, A., eds. Archaeology From The Wetlands: Proceedings of the 11th WARP Conference,Edinburgh 2005. pp. 231-241
• HENDERSON, J.C., 2007. Resisting decay, wind and waves: new research on the lake dwellings of South West Scotland. In: BARBER, J., CLARKE, C., CRONE, A., HALE, A,, HENDERSON, J., HOUSLEY, R., SANDS, R., SHERIDAN, A., eds. Archaeology From The Wetlands: Proceedings of the 11th WARP Conference,Edinburgh 2005. Society of Antiquaries for Scotland, pp. 289-302
• HENDERSON, J.C. AND BARBER, J., 2007. The Later Prehistoric Drystone Forts of Scotland. In: COTTER, C., ed. The Western Stone Forts Project. Wordwell.
• HENDERSON, J.C. AND SANDS, R., 2007. Lacustrine Settlement. In: BARBER, J., CLARKE, C., CRONE, A., HALE, A., HENDERSON, J., HOUSLEY, R., SHERIDAN, A., SANDS, R., eds. Archaeology From The Wetlands: Proceedings of the 11th WARP Conference,Edinburgh 2005. pp. 221
• HENDERSON, J.C., CAVERS, M. G., AND CRONE, B. A,, 2006. The South West Crannog Survey: Recent work on the lake dwellings of Dumfries and Galloway. Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 80, 29-52.
• CAVERS, M. G. and HENDERSON, J. C., 2005. Underwater excavation at Ederline Crannog, Loch Awe, Argyll, Scotland. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 34(2), 282-298.
• HENDERSON, J.C., 2005. An underwater survey of Loch Glashan, Argyll. In: A crannog of the 1st millennium AD; excavations by Jack Scott at Loch Glashan, Argyll, 1960. pp. 20-25
• HENDERSON, J.C., 2004. The Scottish Wetland Archaeology Programme: Assessing and Monitoring the Resource. Journal of Wetland Archaeology, 4, 169-182.
• PYDYN, A., AND HENDERSON, J.C., 2004. Wykorzystanie tachimetru elektronicznego w archeologicznych badaniach podwodnych na przykladzie stanowiska 1 w Polanowie (województwo wielkopolskie). Wielkopolski Biuletyn Konserwatorski, 71-78.
• HENDERSON, J.C., 2003. Review of C. Fredengren, Crannogs: a study of peoples interaction with lakes. Antiquity, 77, 861-862.
• HENDERSON, J.C., CRONE, B.A., AND CAVERS, M.G., 2003. A condition survey of selected crannogs in south west Scotland. Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 77, 79-102.
• HENDERSON, J.C. and CAVERS, M.G., 2002. South West Scotland Crannog Survey. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, 3, 25-27.
• HENDERSON, J.C., CRONE, A. and SANDS, R., 2002. Scottish crannogs: construction, collapse and conflation - problems of interpretation. In: Recent Developments in Wetland Research. 2. pp. 55-68
• HENDERSON, J.C., 2001. The continuity of coastal lives. Times Higher Education Supplement, 24, 26.
• HENDERSON, J.C., ed., 2000. The Prehistory and Early History of Atlantic Europe, Proceedings of the 4th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting, Gothenburg, Sweden, 23rd-27th September 1998. Oxford: Archaeopress.
• HENDERSON, J.C., 2000. Shared Traditions? The Drystone Settlement Records of Atlantic Scotland and Ireland 700 BC-AD200. In: J C HENDERSON, ed. The Prehistory and Early History of Atlantic Europe, Proceedings of the 4th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting, Gothenburg, Sweden. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 891, pp. 117-154
• HENDERSON, J.C., 1999. A survey of crannogs in the Lake of Menteith, Stirlingshire, Scotland. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Proceedings, 128, 273-292.
• HENDERSON, J.C. and SANDS, R., 1999. Scottish crannogs: construction, collapse and conflation. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Proceedings, 128, 1132-1133.
• HENDERSON, J. C., 1998. Islets through time: the definition, dating and distribution of Scottish crannogs. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 17(2), 227-242.
• HENDERSON, J.C. and GILMOUR, S., 1997. Excavations at Cleigh, Argyll. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, 1996, 22-23.
• BURGESS, C. and HENDERSON, J.C., 1996. Close contour survey of submerged sites using data-logging software with particular reference to Scottish crannogs. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 25, 250-256.
• GILMOUR, S., BURGESS, C. and HENDERSON, J. C., 1996. Recording Archaeological Sites using GIS. Archaeological Computing Newsletter, 46, 2-8.
• HENDERSON, J.C., HARDING, D. and GILMOUR, S., 1996. Loch na Berie, Lewis. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, 1995, 111.
• HENDERSON, J.C., 1995. The Lake of Menteith Survey. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, 1994, 9-10.
• HENDERSON, J.C., HARDING, D. and GILMOUR, S., 1995. Loch na Berie, Lewis. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, 1994, 98-99.