Hugh Willmott (archaeologist)

Willmott attended The University of Durham from 1991 to 1999, obtaining the degrees of BA, MA and PhD. On leaving university, he worked for a short period in commercial archaeology before being appointed a lecturer in archaeology at The University of Sheffield in 2004, where he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2010.[1]

Willmott's research focuses on the archaeology of England between c. 600–1600 A.D. He has published on diverse topics such as glassmaking, dining, early ecclesiastical settlements and the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

He has also directed a number of notable excavations;

• Middle Saxon monastery and later medieval settlement at West Halton (2003–2009)[2]
• The Cluniac house at Monk Bretton Priory (2010)[3]
• The medieval hospital and cemetery at Thornton Abbey, which included a mass grave relating to the Black Death (2011–2016)[4][5]
• 7th-8th century AD ecclesiastical settlement at Little Carlton, (2015–2017)[6][7]
• Late 5th-6th century AD Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Scremby (2017–2019)[8][9]

In the past Willmott has served on the committees of The Finds Research Group and the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology. He is currently a council member of The Royal Archaeological Institute, the chair of The Society for Church Archaeology and the archaeological advisor to the Diocese of Sheffield.[10] He was elected a member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists in 2002 and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2005. In 2017 Willmott was featured as one of the University of Sheffield's Inspirational Academics.[11]