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.