Welcome Ted Levermore, Finds and Environmental Processing Supervisor (Essex)!

He joins us from Oxford Archaeology East where he was a finds supervisor and junior specialist. His six years at OAE included several cold winters digging in the fens of East Anglia and some very hot summers hacking at the rock-hard clays of north Essex. He has worked in finds processing for the last four years, where he (largely by accident) developed a specialism in ceramic building material and fired clay artefacts. He is most interested in Roman CBM and later Iron Age pottery kiln technology, but he is more than happy to talk bricks of any period and all things ceramic. His most recent work includes analysis of, amongst other things, a large waster assemblage from a Roman tilery in Corby, Northamptonshire, and reporting an assemblage of Bronze Age salt-making equipment from Maldon, Essex, and a uniquely large single deposit of Middle Iron Age triangular weights from Raunds, Northamptonshire.

In 2016, after deciding that Finds was definitely for him, he enrolled part-time on UCL’s MA Artefact Studies. There he was trained in finds handling, processing and archiving and focused his study on ceramic analysis and interpretation. Also enrolled on that course was his finds counterpart in the Sussex office, Steve Patton - Ted was reassured and relieved to see a familiar face on his first day over Teams!

Ted is looking forward to working with the ASE finds team and keeping up with Lorna’s great work in Witham. He looks forward to meeting and working with everyone in Essex as well as the rest of the ASE team.