Julian C. Richards
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Julian C. Richards FSA | |
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 Julian Richards in 2002 | |
| Born | 1951 (age 73–74) Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England |
| Alma mater | Reading University |
| Occupation(s) | British television and radio presenter |
| Television | Meet the Ancestors, Blood of the Vikings |
Julian C. Richards, FSA (born 1951) is a British television and radio presenter, writer and professional archaeologist with over 30 years' experience of fieldwork and publication.
Richards was born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. He studied at Reading University. Between 1975 and 1980, he worked for the Berkshire Archaeological Unit, helping to build the county Sites and Monuments Record. He excavated and carried out a survey of the Berkshire Downs.
In 1980 he joined the new group Wessex Archaeology, based in Salisbury. For almost ten years he ran the Stonehenge Environs Project, a detailed study of Stonehenge and its surrounding landscape.[1]
With Peter Cox and John Hawkes from Wessex Archaeology, Richards started AC Archaeology in 1991. AC Archaeology is still based in Wiltshire, and now also operates an office in Devon.[2]
After three years Richards left commercial archaeology and joined English Heritage to work on its Monuments Protection Programme (MPP). As part of this work, he inspected sites and prepared reports on the protection of important archaeological sites in Wiltshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
