Evan came to Cardiff to go to University and hasn’t managed to escape yet, not that he has tried very hard. In 1990 he got a six month contract in the Department of Archaeology and Numismatics of the National Museum of Wales and has remained there ever since. He specialises in the Roman period, but also has an interest in later periods of British history and archaeology. His primary artefact specialism is Roman small finds: he has just completed a catalogue of Roman military equipment in the Museum’s collection and is currently writing up the small finds from the Caerwent Basilica excavations.

Evan is principally involved in the day-to-day curation of the study collections of the Department, but is also involved with exhibitions and assists on departmental excavations.

I was born in Birmingham and after leaving school was apprenticed to a watch wholesaler. I attended Vittoria Street School of Arts & Crafts and ended up a Craft Member of the British Horological Institute However Watch and clock repairing was a career I followed up only until a point at which he decided it was going nowhere. I left that to go to Newbattle Abbey College, Dalkeith. It was while studying there that I got interested in archaeology and spent a couple of seasons digging with Trevor Watkins at a site somewhere in East Lothian. Eventually I ended up with a degree in History and Archaeology from Bangor.

Later I became an archaeologist for the National Trust in Wales a job for which I am eternally grateful to Frances Lynch for although the exact means by which it came about I have no idea. I share this role now with Emma P-D but covering mainly the North and Mid Wales areas plus Aberdulais Falls. I had been on the CBA committee before as Publications Secretary but since 2003 as treasurer, a post I was initially reluctant to take given my normal lack of attention to detail. However I reckon I now quite like filling in hundreds of figures on spreadsheets.

I am also on the Wales IFA committee – how different this is from the CBA equivalent I wouldn’t like to say but our meetings always seem to end up in Wetherspoons.

I used to be quite a good mountaineer and still like wandering around upland areas. In fact this resembles the sort of archaeological research I started doing for the NT. We used to walk all over the hills in north Wales with binoculars looking for sites. Since all the recorded sites were spectacular mountain top cairns or IA settlements virtually the only thing left to discover was the ubiquitous sheepfold and I have surveyed dozens of these despite not a little scorn from other archaeologists - their day will come I reckon.

Working for the Trust has meant that one might as well forget any notion of specialising in anything – I have to cover the lot whatever it is from bits of forensic research on the interiors of stately homes to industrial spoil tips. And, being the NT there is quite a bit of the usual fulfilling of targets and the production of wordy internal reports. However, it is all good fun, a fantastic job and I couldn’t possibly complain except that is when I have to do yet another one of those Audits.

She works for the National Trust in Wales and is usually to be found up ladders or in dark cellars with a torch as she works in the field of building survey and conservation.

She came late to the profession as a mature student at Lampeter, and in a previous existence as a radiographer actually X rayed the Great Train Robbery train driver (isn't it a small world). She has been known to spent her holidays getting back to the earth, digging in the Severn Estuary.

Recently retired from teaching prehistory in the School of History and Welsh History at University of Wales, Bangor, Frances has renewed a long association with CBA Wales by becoming Chairman for the second time (the first was in 1983-86). She was Secretary from 1971-81 at a time when the CBA became closely involved with planning issues and when the structure of Welsh archaeology was changing radically with the foundation of the Archaeological Trusts, a development in which she took some part. She is currently the Chairman of CPAT and also sits on the committee of GAT.

She is familiar with the wider conservation scene, having been secretary of the Anglesey Branch of CPRW (years ago), on the archaeological panel of the National Trust and a nominated member of the Snowdonia National Park Committee from 1994-98. She also has some knowledge of the museum world, having been involved in the struggle to save Bangor Museum and brought together its archaeological catalogue. She currently represents the CBA on the court of the National Museum of Wales.

Together with her distinguished predecessor, she is now a Trustee of the central CBA and charged with ensuring that the centre is made aware of our concerns and views. Please tell her if there are problems you want aired in that forum.

Tony was "elected" to the CBA Wales committee after having opened his mouth too wide once too often at an AGM when commenting on the lack of a web site for CBA Wales. As a result he was asked to help putting a web site together.

Tony's interest in archaeology was initiated and fostered by his father (Ted, a previous member of the CBA Wales committee) from an early age. He met his wife in a Roman midden, whilst a student at the University of Birmingham, during one of the digs at Alcester.

Twenty-odd years overseas resulted in a hiatus in "real" archaeological activity but the recent move to a house of "historical significance" has resulted in a resurgence of interest in the industrial and landscape archaeology of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Jeff Spencer was born in London on the 22nd May 1974 and moved to live near Aberystwyth in Wales at the age of four, consequently spending the whole of his undistinguished school career in Wales.

In 1993 Jeff made the admirable decision to study a subject he was interested in at university, and resigned himself to being a financial cripple for evermore. In 1996 he emerged from three fantastic years at Bournemouth University with a BA (Hons) in Archaeology and a dissertation on the construction of Second World War temporary airfields on Selsey Bill, Sussex.

By great good fortune Jeff got a job on the English Heritage funded Archaeological Investigations Project at Bournemouth for three years after graduation, spending proportions of each summer supervising on the university training excavations on the Isle of Man (a beautiful place, you should visit it, you won't be disappointed).

After six great years in Bournemouth the opportunity came for a return to Wales with the offer of a place on the PG dip/MA Cultural Landscape Management course at the University of Wales Lampeter. Jeff completed the course in 2000 and decided to continue his studies into military airfields by undertaking a dissertation on the perception, protection and management of three airfields in northwest Wales, the former RAF stations of Llanbedr, Llandwrog and Penrhos.

One of Jeff’s ambitions (to work as a professional archaeologist in Wales) was achieved in September 2000 when he got work with the Gwynedd Archaeological Trust as Heritage Management Archaeologist with responsibility for the Tir Gofal all-Wales agri-environmental scheme. After 18 happy, occasionally frantic, months with GAT Jeff moved to become Regional Sites and Monuments Record Officer with the Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust in Welshpool, where he can now be found in a corner of the office behind the backlog of SMR work trying not to be noticed.

Personal hobbies include sport (mainly just watching), and an unhealthy interest in loud rock music.

Emma joined the CBA Wales/Cymru committee in 1997 with special responsibility for historical landscape and environment issues. This interest stems from her PhD work on enclosed landscape development in County Clare.

She is a Council Member of Wales Environment Link, a member of the Ancient Monument Board of Wales, the Dyfed Archaeological Trust Management Committee and the Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust Committee.

When not engaged with these, she is National Trust Archaeologist and Historic Properties Adviser for Wales.

This shadowy figure purports to be an Assistant Inspector of Ancient Monuments for Cadw, with particular responsibility for scheduling. Born and raised in Edinburgh, Matt has worked as a field investigator for the RCAHMS (surveying, for example, the slopes of Ben Lawers on Loch Tay; and the Isle of Eigg in the Inner Hebrides) and an assistant inspector for Historic Scotland (responsible for the field monuments of the Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway). Identifying and recording monuments in the field remains his first love - he claims to sleep with a tape measure and compass under his pillow, only using his trowel to prop up the files in his office. He enjoys photography, but does not carry a ranging-pole for fear of spearing himself. Those that have spotted a rotund figure flitting between monuments in the uplands of Wales will not be surprised to hear that Matt values both food and beer highly.

Rapidly approaching old age, Chris has been in his time a furious sportsman, an architect, a full-time excavator (as co-founder of the pioneering Rescue Archaeology Group in the 1970s), Director of a the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust, and finally the first Investigator in Air Photography at the Welsh Royal Commission. Retired since 1996, he has returned to golf (a long walk punctuated by disappointments), to freelance air photography (mainly over England), and to work with CBA (as Hon Treasurer) and CBA Wales. He was one of the founder members of the Institute of Field Archaeologists and also served as Chairman of IFA Wales/Cymru. He is currently Hon Treasurer of the CBA, as well as a previous Chairman of CBA Wales. His original interests focussed on the later prehistoric, and particularly on excavation, but as an air photographer he will record anything archaeological that does not positively dodge out of the way.

After 21 years as a cheif flying instructor, Hang Gliding; started archaeological career in 1996 as undergrade at UWCN.

Research Phd 1999-2004 at UWCN. Motte and bailey castles.

After various archaeological contracts, UK, Spain, Gibraltar and Morroco started own archaeological consultancy, A.P.A.C. Ltd, specialising in topographic survey, geophysics and digital photogrammetry.