Introducing The Finds Liaison Officers
Treasure Hunting magazine|July 2019

I am both fortunate and very privileged to be the Finds Liaison Officer for Devon.

Lucy Shipley
Introducing The Finds Liaison Officers

Finds Liaison Officer for Devon

It’s a huge county and a beautiful one, but I’m based centrally at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter. I work there for two days in the middle of the week, and usually do an additional half day at home. I have the fun of going out all round the county to meet detectorists at clubs and run a series of museum-based Finds Days in Torquay, Kingsbridge and Plymouth. I love getting out and about meeting people and really enjoy my occasional visits to rallies when I get to get muddy!

How and why did I get started in archaeology?

I’ve wanted to be an archaeologist from the age of about three or four – I remember being fascinated by a children’s book on the Ice Age and was thrilled to see the excavation of the West Runton mastodon as a child. I was a very geeky teenager and read the Renfrew and Bahn archaeology textbook cover to cover every year during my summer holidays – I couldn’t wait to get to university and finally study the subject. I did a BA, an MA then a PhD at the University of Southampton and focused on the Etruscans, a group of Iron Age communities from central Italy. This meant regular trips to Rome and working just outside Siena every summer – a hard life!

What is my greatest achievement in archaeology?

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة July 2019 من Treasure Hunting magazine.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة July 2019 من Treasure Hunting magazine.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

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