Ailsa Jean Mainman

Ailsa Jean Mainman is a British archaeologist and pottery specialist.

Career Mainman completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield and is now a research associate at the University of York. She is a former assistant director of York Archaeological Trust.

She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 12 January 1989.

Personal life In 1991 Mainman married fellow archaeologist Richard Hall (1949–2011). In 2014 Mainman fulfilled her late husband's "last wish" by helping to publish the final volume in a progressive series of publications about York Archaeological Trust's excavations of Jorvik.

Select publications MacGregor, A., Mainman, A. J. and Rogers, N. S. H. 1999. Craft, industry and everyday life: bone, antler, ivory and horn from Anglo-Scandinavian and medieval York (Archaeology of York 17/12). York, York Archaeological Trust. Mainman, A. J. and Rogers, N. S. H. 2000. Craft, Industry, and Everyday Life: Finds from Anglo-Scandinavian York (Archaeology of York 17/14). York, York Archaeological Trust. Mainman, A. J. and Jenner, A. 2013. Medieval Pottery from York (Archaeology of York 16/9). York, York Archaeological Trust. Mainman, A. J. and Hall, R. 2015. "Eoforwic: Post Roman and Anglian York", The British Historic Town Atlas Vol V.