Meet the Team

BA Hons, MA, PCIfA - Project Director

Rob founded the Culver Archaeological Project in 2005 whilst supervising at the excavations of the Roman villa at Barcombe for UCL. He gained a Masters in Field Archaeology at Sussex in 2008 where he became an Associate Tutor until 2012. He had previously studied for his honours degree in Egyptian Archaeology at UCL. Since 2005 he has directed annual excavations to investigate the wider historic landscape of the Sussex Ouse valley; discovering a Roman road and roadside activity at Barcombe followed by the settlement at Bridge Farm in 2011. In 2015 he set up an under-graduate level training course which is run at the site every year and is a regular speaker at conferences and local schools and societies.

BA Hons, MA, MCIfA - Research Archaeologist

David gained a Masters in Field Archaeology from Sussex in 2011 where he was an Associate Tutor until 2012. He site supervised for CAP on the Roman road at Culver Farm 2007-10 and at the Roman bathhouse at Barcombe 2010-12. He was CAP's Deputy Site Director 2011-20 as the focus moved to the Romano-British settlement at Bridge Farm, and now concentrates on post-excavation reports and formal papers for Journals. He  compiled the project's site manual, 'To CAP it all' and is a frequent speaker to local societies and conferences. Away from CAP he wrote the medieval chapter for 'Archaeology of the Ouse Valley, Sussex'  (2016  Archaeopress) and the retrospective report on Ainsworth's unpublished 1979-83 excavations of the medieval pottery kilns at Streat, East Sussex. 

BA Hons, MA - Consultant

Lindsay joined the project in 2016 as a volunteer when she was studying archaeology at University College London and has been employed as site supervisor for the following excavation seasons since.  She has also acted as site supervisor and trained undergraduate students on the UCL training excavation for two successive years and worked on numerous other excavations, such as an investigation into the Stonehenge bluestone quarry sites in Wales.  She gained her PhD at the University of Reading where she also completed her Masters qualification.  Her PhD research involved exploring Romano-British identity through material culture, specifically looking at imported lava querns and millstones in Britain originating from the Eifel region of Germany. She is currently employed by the Canterbury Archaeological Trust.

Finds Supervisor & Recorder

Having joined the CAP team in 2013,  Nancy became Finds Supervisor in 2018, to coordinate the finds processing team, managing the sorting, processing, recording and storage of all types of artefacts. She maintains the finds database and IT records for their inclusion in the project archive and reports, and produces displays of interesting artefacts for open days and school visits. Nancy is also responsible for training new finds volunteers and work experience students, and delivers the finds processing element of the Field School. She also fields the enquiries received via information@culverproject.co.uk.

From 2022 she has been ably supported by Julia Montgomery, our Bones Specialist, who deputises as Supervisor in Nancy’s absence.

Treasurer and Artefact Photographer

Having helped with Finds Processing for some years, Mike has also taken on the role of CAP treasurer which has proved invaluable in these  difficult financial times with his producing regular income and expenditure spreadsheets and forecasts. He also handles volunteer and student applications that come in to join@culverproject.co.uk. 

His work with the Portable Antiquities Scheme has honed his skills in photographing archaeological artefacts. This includes all our recent Special Finds, using procedures that he shares with students on the field school. This in turn has also led to vessel reconstruction as  broken, but complete, vessels need  assembling prior to photographing.

Site Supervisor and Course Tutor

Andy's involvement with CAP goes back to the Culver Farm days but since 2021 he has been our site supervisor, together with Rich Best (CCCU graduate and PhD student). Andy specialises in surveying, planning, section drawing and standing building recording, all of which he tutors as part of the Training Programme. He is employed in the commercial archaeology sector when not at Bridge Farm.

Assistant Site Supervisors: We are pleased that many CCCU graduates have progressed over recent years to take on a supervisory role. These include Georgia Gunn, Wiki Krzoska, Jade Fennell, Nat Miller,  Blake Galloway (who also runs our Instagram page) and George Morris.

Site Manager

Andy has been a regular member of the CAP team since coming through our training course in 2018. In 2019 he became the Site Manager which involves a lot of the less glamorous hard graft on the project including maintenance and improvement work during the winter and regular visits to site to see just how flooded the trench is when the Ouse bursts its banks. He has also dug with BHAS since 2019 and was invited by the University of Texas, to dig on the Oplontis project in Naples, Italy in 2022.