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

Dr David Rudling
Chair and Sussex Officer

chair@cbasouth-east.org

D Rudling 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 Sussex Archaeology and History. He is also a Vice-Chair of the Surrey Archaeology Society, a former Chairman of the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society and a former trustee of the Sussex Archaeological Society. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists. 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 (1993-2003), and was more recently employed as a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology (Continuing Education) at the University of Sussex..

Steve Cleverly
Vice Chair, Treasurer

s.cleverly@icloud.com

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 served as Chair of CBA South-East from 2022 to 2026.

Dr 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

Philip started digging 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 1976 and 1979 (as Finds Assistant and site supervisor) followed by 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 (now part-time), he developed the Surrey Archaeological 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 Ewell sites). He has also served on the Surrey Archaeological Society 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 (published 2024).

Andrew Ward
Social Media (interim)
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.

Simon Stevens
Grants Officer

simon.stevens@ucl.ac.uk

Simon is Sussex born and bred, and after graduating from the University of York (where he was fortunate enough to train at Sutton Hoo), he joined Archaeology South-East as a full-time digger in 1994. Ruthlessly rising through the ranks, he currently holds the post of Senior Archaeologist/Project Officer. He has worked on a wide variety of commercial development-led projects over the years mostly in East and West Sussex, Hampshire, Surrey and Kent, but retains a keen interest in community archaeology, including directing the award-winning Stiances Archaeological Project, an ongoing ‘dig’ for primary school children. He also acts as a supervisor on training excavations for university students and volunteers, mostly notably during recent investigations at Bodiam Castle.

Away from the ‘day job’, he is the Vice Chair of the Wealden Iron Research Group and is a member of their experimental iron smelting team (usually the most charcoal-smeared member). Once clean, he also gives regular talks to local archaeological societies and other groups on a variety of topics both archaeological and otherwise. In his spare time, he paints toy soldiers (apparently some people call this ‘wargaming’) and spends extended periods looking for things that he put somewhere safe.

Rose Hooker
Trustee, 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.