What do you love about your job the most? What is the most interesting thing you have ever found? Camille Jones (11)

Hi Camille, those are tricky questions, it’s so hard to pick my favourites!

I think the thing I like best about my job is that I get to learn something new every day, I love finding out about new archaeological sites and discoveries that help us better understand how people in the past lived. Working at the CBA is also great because I get to help other people get involved with archaeology through our projects and events like the Festival of Archaeology.

The most interesting thing I have ever found is probably a Bronze Age settlement I discovered when I was doing some fieldwork in the uplands of the Isle of Man. I recorded a site that was made up of a circular building and a series of banks that created an enclosure in front. I was lucky enough to be able to dig a section through the building and we were able to see how it had been built with large stones, earth and turf. There were no finds at all but it was great to think that we were the first people recording this site and adding it to the archaeological record.

Answered by:

Dr Claire Corkill

Claire is the Development Manager at the Council for British Archaeology. She grew up on the Isle of Man surrounded by loads of exciting archaeology and studied archaeology at the University of York where she did her PhD in First World War archaeology. Claire has excavated on lots of different sites around the British Isles and was once lucky enough to excavate the site of a coin hoard which led to the discovery of a medieval chapel. When she’s not working Claire loves to explore archaeological sites around Scotland where she now lives. 

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