Quita Mould

Quita Mould is an archaeologist, specialising in small finds and the identification of leather.

Biography Mould has a BA in Archaeology and Geography from Southampton University and an MA in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology. She has contributed to numerous small finds reports and analysis from Roman, Early-Medieval, and Medieval sites. She was one of the principal authors of the Historic England guidance on "Waterlogged Organic Artefacts". She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 1 January 2005.

Mould is the secretary of the Archaeological Leather Group and the Membership Secretary of the Finds Research Group.

Select publications Volken, M., Mould, Q., and Cameron, E. 2020. "A reassessment of leatherwork from the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial", Antiquaries Journal Keiley, J. and Mould, Q. 2017. "Leatherworking in South-Eastern Britain in the Roman Period", in Bird, D. (ed). Agriculture and Industry in South-Eastern Roman Britain. Oxford, Oxbow. 236–254 Mould, Q. and Cameron, E. 2016. "The animal pelt", in Jones, A.M., Preserved in the Peat: An extraordinary Bronze Age burial on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor, and its wider context. Oxford, Oxbow Books. 64–68 Thompson, R. and Mould, Q. (eds) 2011. Leather Tanneries: the archaeological evidence. London: Archetype Mould, Q. 2011. "Devil's Crafts and Dragon's Skins? Sheaths, Shoes and Other Leatherwork", in Clegg Hyer, M. and Owen-Crocker, G. R. (eds) The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World. University of Exeter Press, 93–115 Mould, Q. 2011. "Domestic life", in Allason-Jones, L. (ed.) Artefacts in Roman Britain, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 153–79 Mould, Q. 2009. "The Roman Shoes" and "The Medieval Leather", in Howard-Davis, C. The Carlisle Millennium Project excavations in Carlisle, 1998–2001. Volume 2: The Finds. Oxford, Oxford Archaeology North, 831–857