Stewart Ainsworth

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Stewart Ainsworth with Helen Geake while shooting a Time Team in 2007
Stewart Ainsworth with Helen Geake while shooting a Time Team in 2007

Stewart Ainsworth is a British archaeological investigator, who is regularly seen on Time Team, the Channel 4 archaeological television series.

He trained as a surveyor before entering the archaeology section of the Ordnance Survey. He has worked on a number of archaeological sites in Britain and abroad. He joined the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (now part of English Heritage) in 1985, and is now head of their Landscape Investigation Team based in York, England.

He is affectionately known as Time Team's "lumps and bumps" man, working with the team alongside his day job, travelling the country surveying, recording and investigating archaeological sites.

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