Who we are

Kit Saunders is a Kendal based Landscape Archaeologist with 25 years of experience in a suite of archaeological disciplines.

She is a specialist in multi-method approaches to survey, having worked as an archaeological geophysicist, a field archaeologist and as a geomatics and database specialist, with experience of python, including ArcPy. She has undertaken a diverse range of geophysical, metric, walkover and landscape surveys, throughout the UK and beyond, including within a number of World Heritage Sites. She has worked in commercial, academic and community led contexts, producing high quality reports, datasets and publication standard images throughout.

Kit has worked as an educator, in several academic contexts, and with a number of community groups. This involved teaching undergraduates, post-graduates and members of the public, the skills required to undertake metric and geophysical surveys, and to process, interpret and display the resultant data. She was also heavily involved in the creation of the UHI second year undergraduate module, Digital Archaeology. Kit is also highly experienced in staff training within the commercial sector, frequently offering in-field, office-based and remote support to newer members of staff.

Currently Kit works as a part-time, remote, Geomatics Project Officer for OA Oxford, primarily working on large commercial projects within ArcGIS Pro. She is a Teaching Associate at the University of Cumbria, recently delivering sessions to second year BSc Geography students, centred around the field recovery, and quantitative and qualitative lab analysis, of a long peat core for proxy climate reconstruction.

Kit is passionate about upland historic landscapes, together with the theoretical archaeological interpretation of empirical datasets. She has presented to a diverse range of audiences, including at the ICAP, NSGG, CAA, EAA and TAG.

Kit holds a BA Archaeology (2:1) from the University of Durham (2001), an MSc Archaeological Prospection (Distinction) from the University of Bradford (2002) and a PhD, ‘Walking through time: a window onto the later prehistoric landscapes of the Yorkshire Dales through non-standard, multi-method survey approaches’, from the University of Bradford (2017).

In her spare time, Kit enjoys running, walking, swimming and biking within the historic upland landscapes of the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales.