Kevin Simon Colls

Research Fellow in Archaeology and Heritage

Archaeology

Photograph of Kevin Simon Colls

Contact details

Telephone +44 (0)121 414 5514

Email k.s.colls@bham.ac.uk

Arts Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

About

Kevin is a professional archaeologist and researcher who has directed and published archaeological projects throughout the United Kingdom and Europe and has widely travelled to sites across the world.

His specialist subjects include the application of archaeological field techniques (survey, excavation and landscape studies), medieval town development, and island archaeology.

His project portfolio includes major archaeological excavations in many of the UK’s urban centres including London, Birmingham, Manchester and Bristol as well as the archaeology of the Western Isles of Scotland

Postgraduate supervision

  • Archaeological field practice, theory and application
  • Post-excavation processes
  • Islands off Scotland’s Atlantic coast

Research

  • The archaeology of the Western Isles, focusing upon the Isle of Harris, in particular environmental and geomorphological impacts on the identification of buried archaeological remains.
  • Dig for Shakespeare project – the excavation of New Place, the last home of William Shakespeare.
  • The archaeological development of medieval towns, focusing upon Coventry, Stafford and Bristol.

Publications

Colls K. and Hunter J. forthcoming summer 2011 'A Changing Hebridean Landscape: Recent Survey And Excavation Along The West Coast of Harris' International Journal of the North Atlantic, Special Volume

Colls, K. and Mitchell, W. forthcoming 2011 ‘A cycle of Recession and Recovery AD 1200-1900: Archaeological Investigations at Much Park Street, Coventry’. Internet Archaeology

Colls, K. and Hunter J. 2010 ‘Defining the archaeological resource on the Isle of Harris: an assessment of the impact of environmental factors and topography on the identification of buried remains’. In The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures Volume 4, number 2.

Colls, K. and Halsted, J. 2010 New evidence for monument reuse in Bronze Age Wales: Archaeological excavation at Llanymynech, Powys, 2007’ Archaeologia Cambrensis 15869-96

Colls, K. 2011 ‘The Avon Floodplain at Bristol: Excavations at Templar House, Temple Way, in Bristol 2004 and 2005’. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucester Archaeological Society vol 128 pp 75-122

Colls, K. and Mitchell, W 2010 ‘Digging for Shakespeare, excavations at New Place, Stratford Upon Avon’. British Archaeology July/August 2010

Colls, K. and Hunter J. 2009 ‘Fishy tales from a Scottish isle’ The Archaeologist,

Colls, K. & Adams, J. 2007 ‘Out of darkness, cometh light. Excavations in the overflow burial ground of St. Peter’s Church, Wolverhampton. British Archaeology Report series 442. Archaeopress

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