- I work for Welsh Government, currently within Visit Wales.
- I worked for Cadw for 12 years and whilst I was there I met some lovely people who were archaeologists. They gave me the chance to become involved (I am completely untrained) and my first taste of a dig was when Time Team visited Caerwent. I spent a lovely two days pot washing. It was just fascinating cleaning the mud of centuries off delicate pieces of Samian ware, chunky roof tiles, animal bones and other odds and ends. Later I volunteered and learnt to trowel and finds manage on a further 4 excavations 3 through Cadw and one from the National Museum of Wales. When I left Cadw I realised that I wanted to continue to build on what I had learnt and just discovered Dig Ventures while googling during my lunch hour one day. Crowd funding seemed like a brilliant idea as I’m only too aware that funding for any sort of archaeology is extremely limited. It also gives a chance for ordinary people to get involved and makes archaeology and archaeological experience so much more accessible. I love Lindisfarne island and I love archaeologyand the secrets it holds
- There are so many little highlights! The people, the setting and finding those human bones! Finding a pelvis was fascinating because it was something other than stone
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