Dr Marcus Hatch

Profile

I am a Palaeolithic archaeologist, with particular expertise in the British Lower Palaeolithic. I have experience of field excavations and undertaking geoarchaeological work both research and commercial archaeological purposes, and including supervising borehole work, section recording, geophysical investigations and TS/GNSS surveying. My PhD was one of two AHRC funded CDA PhDs on the Solent River Palaeolithic Project. This research focused on the stratigraphical and chronological framework for the Palaeolithic archaeological record of the Solent River. AS part of this project I developed expertise in optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of sediments. As a post-doctoral researcher on the Breckland Palaeolithic Project I was involved in a number of site investigations, including excavations, recording of geological sections and test pits, coarse-mesh sieving programmes and sample processing. I also worked with French colleagues on electron spin resonance (ESR) dating of samples from various Breckland sites, gaining expertise in both field sampling and sample analysis at the Museum of Natural History’s ESR dating lab in Paris. I am a Research Associate with the Pathways to Ancient Britain project and I have been involved in a number of PAB research projects. I am part of the project team for the Palaeolithic Artefacts arising from Sandscaping (PADS) project and have been working with Norfolk Museums Service to identify and record artefacts found on the beaches of northeast Norfolk.

Research

Publications

Recent Publications

• Lewis, S.G., Ashton, N., Davis, R.J., Hatch, M., Hoare, P.G., Voinchet, P., Bahain, J-J. 2021. A revised terrace stratigraphy and new ESR geochronology of the early Middle Pleistocene Bytham River in the Breckland of East Anglia. Quaternary Science Reviews 269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107113
• Davis, R.J., Ashton, N., Hatch, M. Hosfield. R. and Lewis, S.G. 2021. Lower and early Middle Palaeolithic of Southern England: the evidence from the River Test. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 4, 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-021-00096-3
• Davis, R.J., Ashton, N., Hatch, M., Hoare, P.G., Lewis, S.G. 2021. Palaeolithic archaeology of the Bytham River: human occupation of Britain during the early Middle Pleistocene and its European context. Journal of Quaternary Science 36, 526-546. http://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3305
• Hatch, M., Davis, R.J., Lewis, S.G., Ashton, N., Briant, R.M. 2019. Warsash, Terrace 3 section. In Bridgland, D. R., Briant, R. M., Allen, P., Brown, E. J., White, T.S. (Eds). The Quaternary Fluvial Archives of the Major English Rivers. Quaternary Research Association, London, pp. 131-141.
• Briant, R.M., Davis, R.J., Egberts, E., Hatch, M., Basell, 2019. L. Quaternary fluvial archives of the erstwhile River Solent. In Bridgland, D. R., Briant, R. M., Allen, P., Brown, E. J., White, T.S. (Eds). The Quaternary Fluvial Archives of the Major English Rivers. Quaternary Research Association, London, pp.60-69.
• Briant, R.M., Bates, M.R., Boreham, S., Cameron, N.G., Coope, G.R., Field, M.H., Hatch, M., Holmes, J.A., Keen, D.H., Kilfeather, A.A., Penkman, K.E.H., Simons, R.M.J., Schwenninger, J., Wenban-Smith, F.F., Whitehouse, N.J., Whittaker, J.E. 2019. Early Ipswichian (last interglacial) sea level rise in the channel region: Stone Point Site of Special Scientific Interest, Hampshire, England. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 130, 1-26.
• Davis, R.J., Lewis, S.G., Ashton, N., Parfitt, S.A., Hatch, M. and Hoare, P.G. 2017. The early Palaeolithic archaeology of the Breckland: current understanding and directions for future research. Journal of Breckland Studies 1, 28–44.
• Hatch, M., Davis, R.J., Lewis, S.G., Ashton, N., Briant, R. and Lukas, S. 2017. The stratigraphy and chronology of the Pleistocene fluvial sediments at Warsash, Hampshire, UK: implications for terrace stratigraphy and Palaeolithic archaeology of the River Test. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 128, 198–221. DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2016.12.001.
• Davis, R.J., Hatch, M., Ashton, N., Hosfield, R. and Lewis, S.G. 2016. The Palaeolithic record of Warsash, Hampshire, UK: implications for late Lower and early Middle Palaeolithic occupation history of Southern Britain. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 127, 558–574. DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2016.09.005.