The current trustees of the Council for British Archaeology South-East are drawn from all of the counties within our region and perform a wide range of public and private roles. See below for their profiles:
CBA South-East Committee
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Steve Cleverly
Chair, Treasurer
chair@cbasouth-east.org
Steve took over the role as CBA South-East Treasurer in 2016 from the long-serving John Funnell. He is currently the Treasurer of Chichester and District Archaeology Society and is also the Chair of their Fieldwork Committee. He is actively involved in survey, research and excavation, and he gained his BA in Archaeology and Landscape via Sussex University in 2011. Steve has been Chair of CBA South-East since December 2022.
Anne Sassin
Trustee
Anne is Steve’s immediate predecessor as Chair of CBA South-East 2020-22 and is Projects and Outreach Officer for Surrey Archaeological Society and Community Archaeologist for the Darent Valley Landscape Partnership Scheme in West Kent. She has managed several heritage and community archaeology projects in the south-east, and is currently Honorary Research Fellow at Canterbury Christchurch University and a part-time Lecturer in Archaeology at the Centre for Continuing Education, University of Oxford. Though her PhD research (undertaken at the University of Nottingham) focused on early medieval and Norman monuments in South Wales, she has a particular interest in outreach and the local archaeology of Surrey, Kent and Hampshire.
Elizabeth Blanning
Secretary
trustees@cbasouth-east.org
Biography to come
Shiela Broomfield
Membership Secretary and Kent Officer
membership@cbasouth-east.org
Shiela’s first archaeological excavation was at Wroxeter in 1964, an opportunity she gained by contacting the CBA, after which she dug locally in Middlesex and the City of London until moving to Kent in 1968. There Shiela joined the Kent Archaeological Society and became a supervisor on various archaeological sites in both Kent & Sussex. During her archaeological career Shiela has held (and still holds) a number of prominent positions, including Treasurer and Membership Secretary for the London Archaeologist (1976-2007), for whom she was also Trustee and subsequently Chair of the Standing Conference until it evolved into the Council for British Archaeology London (Shiela is currently Treasurer for CBA London).
Shiela’s other society commitments include being a committee member and leader of the Archaeology Group of the Tonbridge Historical Society and treasurer and membership secretary of the Wealden Iron Research Group.
She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2005, and was granted Honorary Membership of the Council for British Archaeology and the Council for British Archaeology South-East. Shiela also remains active in the field, currently undertaking watching briefs for Kent County Council.
Ann Isenberg and Ann Russell
Newsletter editors
newslettereditor@cbasouth-east.org
Philip Stanley
Webmaster
webmaster@cbasouth-east.org
Phil’s first dig was from school at Box Roman villa in 1968 with Henry Hurst and since then has taken part in over 50 excavations. He graduated (BA(Hons)) in archaeology at the University of Wales (Cardiff) in 1975. Then followed two years at the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust between Nov 1976 and Jan 1979 (as Finds Assistant and site supervisor) and six months at Newport Museum and Art Gallery reconstructing and cataloguing the pottery from the 1965 Roman kiln excavations at Caldicot, Gwent (a good introduction to greyware!).
As, latterly, a professional IT worker, he developed the Surrey Arch. Society’s SMR Roman database. He now specialises in Roman pottery and has developed a pot recording database, initially for Church Meadow, Ewell, excavations 2012-14 (but capable of expansion to include datasets from other sites). He has also served on the Surrey Arch Research Committee (2002-03), and has been on CBASE committee since 2006, latterly as webmaster. He recently reported on finds from the 1960s’ excavations at Bourne Hall Museum, Ewell, and co-ordinated the final excavation report.
Andrew Ward
Vice Chair / Social Media
socialmedia@cbasouth-east.org
Andrew began his archaeological career as a volunteer on the community excavation at Randal Manor, Shorne Woods Country Park prior to starting his degree in Ancient History at The University of Kent, Canterbury in 2014. During his time at university he volunteered with the Kent Historic Environment Record and the Thanet Trust for Archaeology.
Since graduating in 2017 Andrew has been the Historic Environment Record Assistant for East Sussex County Council as well as volunteering with the Kent Finds Liaison Officer. He has participated in a number of community excavations in Kent including an Iron Age-Romano-British site, post medieval manor houses and a village test pitting programme. Andrew’s primary interest lies in the Iron Age, particularly in martial equipment but he also has an avid interest in small finds, finds photography, archaeological mapping as well as outreach and education.
John Funnell
Grants Officer
john.funnell@brightonarch.org.uk
John was Treasurer for the CBA South-East between 1994 and 2016, as well as being twice President of the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society and leader of the BHAS Archaeological Field Unit since 1991. He gained a diploma in Archaeology from Birkbeck College in London, and has been the Director of excavations at Rocky Clump, Brighton and Ovingdean. Awarded the Sussex Heritage Person of the Year in 2011, John still leads numerous heritage walks, gives talks about archaeology and is a member of the Archaeological Working Party for the Sussex Museums Group and the Brighton and Hove Local Access Forum. He has published articles in the Sussex Archaeological Collections as well as numerous field reports in the BHAS Field Notebooks. These are available to download from the BHAS website at www.brightonarch.org.uk.
Rose Hooker
e-Letter and Surrey Officer
hookerrosemary0@gmail.com
Rose has been an active member of Surrey Archaeological Society for many years. She gained a BSc in Archaeology and Environment in 2004 from the now defunct Continuing Education course at the University of Surrey. Rose regularly participates in surveys, excavations and artefact studies and her primary interest is in prehistory.
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David Rudling
Trustee and Sussex Officer
david.rudling@sussexarchaeology.co.uk
David, who was previously the Chairman of CBA South-East from 2011 to 2014 and again from 2017 to 2020, is currently Academic Director of the Sussex School of Archaeology. He is also a trustee of the Sussex Archaeological Society and Chairman of the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society. David is Director of the on-going excavations at Plumpton Roman villa, East Sussex. He began his career at University College London (UCL) studying for degrees in Anthropology and Roman Archaeology. Later he undertook his PhD in Roman Archaeology at Roehampton University. David specialises in Roman-period rural settlements and land-use, religion and ritual in Britain, multi-period landscape archaeology, and ancient and medieval coins. He is a former Director of UCL’s Archaeology South-East, and was more recently employed as a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology (Continuing Education) at the University of Sussex..
Judie English
Trustee
