TVAS Senior Staff

Steve Ford BA PhD MIFA FSA

A graduate of Reading University, after a stint of circuit digging, Steve became excavation secretary of the newly reformed Berkshire Archaeological Society Field Research Group. This eventually led to his appointment as manager of the East Berkshire Archaeological Survey for the then county council whilst completing his doctoral studies and simultaneously lecturing part time for the University Extra-mural Department. In 1988 he set up his own archaeological field unit, one of the first independent contractors in the country. He is an acknowledged specialist in both field survey and prehistoric lithics, his PhD thesis being on The nature and development of prehistoric settlement and land use in the middle Thames region (8000-500bc) with special reference to the evidence from lithic artefacts. He has written or co-authored over 60 reports in academic journals covering periods from the Palaeolithic to the medieval, the topics ranging from methodological and statistical tools for lithic analysis, to major field surveys and numerous excavations. He has been a full Member of the IFA since 1986 and has recently been elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
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Joanna Pine BA MSc MIFA

Jo took her Archaeology BA at Sheffield and has completed an MSc in Geoarchaeology at Reading. After building up considerable field experience at home and abroad, she joined TVAS in 1994 rising to become Assistant Director in 2003, and a full Member of the IFA in the same year. In between running marathons, she has managed over 60 projects, including a number of large quarry sites. She still slips back into the office long enough to write up and publish: currently fifteen major site reports with half a dozen more in the pipeline. She takes a specialised interest in environmental archaeology.
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Steve Preston BA MIFA

After a BA from Durham University, Steve researched the Iron Age of the south of France at Keble College, Oxford. He joined TVAS in 2000 after 7 years of digging and post-excavation work with Essex County Council and has been Post-excavation Officer ever since. A member of the Royal Archaeological Institute and an MIFA, he has also served on the CBA Wessex regional committee as newsletter editor. Steve produces the TVAS Monograph series, keeps our publication backlog in check, and edits stray apostrophes out of all our reports. He has his name on 15 published reports as co-author.
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Andrew Taylor BA MA AIFA

Andy has a BA from King Alfred’s (Winchester) and an MA from Southampton University in Ceramic and lithic Analysis. He joined TVAS in 1999, rising to Senior Archaeological Officer in 2003. He’s been in charge of over 100 projects, is an AIFA and has published two sites: a middle Bronze Age settlement at Thorncombe, Dorset and a Roman field system and cremation cemetery at Sittingbourne, Kent. He has half a dozen more sites awaiting publication dates.
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