Martha
MA student and Pottery Specialist
My draw into archaeology came through my undergraduate degree at the University of Kent, in which I had wanted to focus on Classics. In the first practical fieldwork class I attended, the students excavated and processed materials recovered from an excavation site; for this particular project I wrote a piece on the hundreds of animal bones we recovered and really enjoyed the process. In my third year, I began focussing my interests in Roman pottery as part of a paper I was writing, later to be published in the Journal of Roman Pottery Studies . That was when I decided to pursue a
specialism in Roman pottery, specifically of Kent. I embarked on an MA at the University of Kent. KAS provided a grant that enabled me to write up an assemblage recovered from an excavation with unpublished material. After starting the MA, I became a volunteer for CAT in order to work with Marion Green, to locate and digitise the Pottery Fabric Reference Collection which is an ongoing project. I’m now in the last year of my part-time MA, finishing off identifying the pottery from the KAS site which I will then be writing up in my dissertation.
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