Sinead Marshall

Sinéad is a Senior Consultant with Headland Archaeology Ltd within the archaeology and built heritage consultancy team. She is an archaeologist with 30 years of professional experience in Ireland, the UK and beyond, gained in the areas of consultancy, commercial and research fieldwork on sites dating from the Palaeolithic period onwards. Her early career was predominantly site-based including fieldwork on a wide range of sites, including Neolithic buildings and medieval ringforts across Ireland, the UK, Albania, and Germany. She is licence eligible to direct archaeological investigations including assessment, survey, testing, monitoring, and excavation in Ireland since 2007. Sinéad has a BA Degree in Archaeology and German, as well as a qualification in Buildings Archaeology. Sinéad also has experience in the museum sector, working on events and exhibitions including the London Mithraeum.

Since entering consultancy in 2015, Sinéad has worked on infrastructure projects for housing, water, road, rail and energy clients, on all scales including large rural and urban developments. Sinéad is responsible for carrying out programmes of work relating to the historic environment, helping to identify, evaluate and resolve constraints and provide sustainable solutions that allow developments to proceed on clients’ projects.

The services offered by the team include risk appraisals for linear route optioneering and site selection ahead of land purchases for building development; desk-based assessment (DBA); historic building surveys and environmental impact assessments (EIA) for cultural heritage. Sinéad has extensive experience of engaging and negotiating with statutory bodies on behalf of clients to help secure planning consents, with scoping, specifying and managing programmes of work on archaeological conditions. Sinéad was an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA) from 2015–2021. She is currently based in Ireland and is a member of the Institute of Archaeologists in Ireland (IAI), on the sub-committee for developing new professional guidance on DBA and EIA work.