John Gater is a British archaeological geophysicist who featured regularly on the

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television series ''

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''. He was educated at the

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and graduated with a

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Archaeological Sciences in 1979. He worked with

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(for five years), the Ancient Monuments Laboratory (

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) and Bradford University Research. In 1983 he became a member of the

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(CIfA) and is now also an

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for the ''Journal of Archaeological Prospection''. In 1986 he founded Geophysical Surveys of Bradford (GSB), an independent consultancy in geophysics for archaeology, which was later acquired by the SUMO Group in 2012. On 21 July 2006, Gater was awarded an honorary

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by the University of Bradford for his "distinguished contributions to the field of Archaeological Geophysics".Honorary Doctorates for Chris Gaffney and John Gater
/ref> On the DVD set ''The Very Best Time Team Digs'', Gater states that, as of the time of the DVD's production, his favourite dig was

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(the only site where the quality of the archaeological data was so good that ''Time Team'' returned at a later date to dig it again).

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GSB Prospection

The SUMO Group
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