Having been born in South Wales, I have long held an interest in archaeology having spent many years exploring the Roman ruins at Caerleon and the banks of the River Severn. I came to the University of SOuthampton in 2020 o study archaeology and quickly developed an interest in maritime archaeology, completing my Undergraduate dissertation (2023) on maritime cargoes in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age periods.
In the summer between my Undergraduate and Master’s, I travelled around the Greek Argolid as part of a project researching the regions submerged prehistoric landscapes and archaeology, diving on a number of sites including a submerged Bronze Age settlement, Roman villa rustic and a Classical Temple.
The following year I completed my Master’s dissertation (2024) on the ancient harbour city of Apollonia in Cyrenaica (Libya), a site and region that continues to occupy my interest. As part of this research I looked at the ways in which the submerged and coastal ruins of the site have been impacted by coastal changes and anthropogenic activity over the past 200 years, and how the site could be protected for future generations.
In 2024 I began my PhD project at the University under the supervision of Dr Crystal el-Safadi, Dr Lucy Blue and Dr Helen Farr to look at access, interactions and conceptualisation of the sea by Prehistoric Bronze Age communities in Cyprus. As part of this project, I am challenging the long held notion that this was a period in which the islands inhabitants turned their backs to the sea through the use of digital modelling and the reinterpretation of previously excavated material and collections. As part of this I aim to identify anchorage locations around the island that could have been utilised during the Bronze Age, and their affordances against the maritime environment through the modelling of wind and wave patterns, as well as understand how interactions may be reflected in the material culture record, and what this may indicate about how the sea was conceptualised during this period.
Alongside my current research, I also served as the host and chair of the organisation committee for the Postgraduate Research in Archaeology Symposium 2025, the annual postgraduate student-led conference for member of the Universities Archaeology department. I have also been involved in a number of other archaeological projects over the past few years, some of which include;
- Excavations of the 18th century slipways at Buckler’s Hard (ongoing)
- A Bronze Age burial barrow and community outreach, Andover (ongoing)
- Underwater surveys in the Argolic Gulf (Greece)
- Geophysical survey at Kingston Maurward (Dorset)
- Intertidal surveys of shipwrecks (River Hamble and Itchenor Harbour)
- Excavations at Bitterne Manor and Southampton Common (Southampton)
