Lee Baylis and Julian Amos, both based in Warwickshire, established this society in 2024, with the aim to preserve any history or archaeology in the area, making it accessible for others to enjoy and educate the public of the importance of keeping our history alive. We are welcoming new members to join us and to get all the benefits of getting involved with digs, up-coming to talks and lectures, and being a part of our society.
We are always working towards projects and research, and any projects we are working on will be on the current projects page. Equally, if you have found something you think is of archaeological importance, let us know and we can help and advise.
Founders and Society
Lee Baylis - Archaeologist
I'm a full-time professional archaeologist with 10 years experience, mainly working in commercial archaeology industry and now self employed. I work mainly on Romano British, Iron age, Bronze Age and Medieval sites across the UK. My favourite period of history being the Roman era. I have also built up an ancient artifact collection from many periods to share with the public and museums. I've had a passion and interest in archaeology since I was young, and started my journey by joining local archaeological societies and helping on local digs. With the experience I have in archaeology, we decided to start our own society to share our love of the subject and group together like-minded people that will help further the knowledge and interest in archaeological and historical investigation in the Warwickshire area.
Julian Amos - Archaeologist/Historian
I studied A level archaeology at South Birmingham College in the 1990's, and eventually studied part-time as a mature student at the University of Oxford 2011 - 2015. A course in Landscape Archaeology led to a part-time degree course at Oxford, where I soon realised my major interests actually lay in historical research. I've been a history nut all my life, and as a child walked with my gaze firmly set at the ground scouting for pottery fragments - actually I still do that! This developed to researching local history and later, investigating major historic events and spending hours correlating information from different sources - sometimes discovering conflicting information that I could further investigate. My main fields of interest are Anglo Saxon & Norman churches, Medieval, English Civil War, 17th/18th/19th & 20th century archaeology.
