Who’s who at NNAS
Sue Anderson
Norfolk Archaeology Editor
Sue has worked in the analysis of artefacts since leaving Durham University with a BA in archaeology and an MPhil through research on human skeletal remains. She was Finds Manager at Suffolk County Council for several years before moving to Scotland to work as Head of Post-Excavation for CFA Archaeology Ltd. She returned to Norfolk in 2013 and has worked as a freelance pottery and human bone specialist ever since. She was recently awarded a PhD based on her thesis on medieval pottery in East Anglia, undertaken at UEA. She has also worked as a freelance copy-editor and typesetter for East Anglian Archaeology, Archaeology Scotland and other bodies for several decades.
Roger Bellinger
Assistant Treasurer and Trustee
Roger is a retired Actuary after 35 years at Norwich Union. He got the archaeology bug at age 12 when he took part in an excavation organised by the famous archaeologist, Kathleen Kenyon, at Roman Wroxeter and has been involved in archaeology ever since. In 1974 he was asked by the then Secretary of the Society, Ivan Cresswell, to handle new members and when Ivan became President in 1987 he took over as Secretary. In 2008 he was elected President and in 2012 became Treasurer. He has handled subscriptions, payments and receipts ever since. Roger has also had active roles with Norfolk Archaeology and Historical Research Group (NAHRG), The Caistor Research Project, his local history society and Norfolk Family History Society.
Sophie Cabot
Honorary General Secretary, Trustee and leader of Norwich Young Archaeologists Club
Sophie started doing regular archaeological fieldwork with her ‘home’ university, Manchester, when she was 14, then studied at the Cardiff and Glasgow universities. In 1996 Sophie became involved with the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (SHARP), this led to a career in heritage engagement. Sophie moved to Norwich over 20 years ago, when she joined both this Society and its Council. She currently works at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Galleries, previously working for Norfolk Record Office, Norfolk Country Council Environment Team, and Norwich HEART. Sophie is also a Trustee of Hungate Medieval Art and has recently become involved with projects around the little known Jewish Heritage of Norfolk and Norwich.
Dr Clare Haynes FSA
Trustee
Clare is a historian of British visual culture. She holds an honorary research fellowship at the University of East Anglia, and she has taught at the UEA, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Tulsa, USA. Clare is chair of Trustees of Hungate Medieval Art, and in March 2018 she was appointed as Senior Research Associate on the HERA funded ‘Herligion’ project, researching the history of St Peter Hungate as a museum.
Dr Andrew Hutcheson FSA
Trustee
Andrew is an archaeologist and lecturer in the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture and the School of History and Art History, UEA. Andy’s interests include the relationship between archaeology, heritage and wellbeing. He is Principal Investigator for the Later Prehistoric Norfolk Project. Andy is also interested in trade and exchange with a particular focus on the development of money, conceptions of value and long-distance networks in the later prehistoric and early medieval worlds. Recently he held a fellowship at the National Museum of Japanese History, exploring the development of trade and exchange between China, the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago in the later first millennium BCE and early centuries CE.
Rachel Kirk
Society’s Administrator
Rachel worked for Norfolk Museums Service for 18 years, initially in Great Yarmouth where she was the Project Manager for the Time and Tide Museum, then in Norwich as the Norwich Museums Manager. Since then, she has worked for a number of Norfolk County Council’s European funding programmes and as a freelance museum consultant. Rachel currently delivers a similar administrative role for The Norwich Society and is a Trustee of the Museum of the Broads.
Victor Morgan
Trustee
Victor is currently Honorary Associate Professor in the School of History, UEA; Emeritus Fellow, the Royal Historical Society; and, Life Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He has spent much of his career teaching at the UEA and at one time was Director of East Anglian Studies. He has lectured widely throughout Norfolk in additional to speaking at national and international conferences and symposia and has many publications to his name. He is an active member of many heritage and friends groups and amongst other things is general editor of the Society’s occasional series.
Trevor Nuthall
Trustee
Trevor is a retired legal executive who has been a trustee of the Society for many years. He is particularly interested in history and in 2022 graduated from the University of Cambridge as a Master of Studies in History. Trevor has written several historical articles for Norfolk Archaeology, most recently an article about the location of the Battle of Dussindale, the battle that in 1549 put an end to Kett’s Rebellion.
Dr Timothy Pestell
Trustee
Tim is the Senior Curator of Archaeology at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery. He studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, and Archaeology at Cambridge University, followed by a PhD at the University of East Anglia. He was the interpretation lead on the £27m restoration of Norwich Castle Keep which opened in 2025. Tim served on the Treasure Valuation Committee and the Bury St Edmunds Cathedral’s Fabric Advisory Committee for ten years and is currently on the Government’s Reviewing Committee for the Export of Works of Art (RCEWA). He is a trustee of the Great Hospital in Norwich, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and an Honorary Research Fellow at the UEA.
Andrew Rogerson
Trustee
Andrew was born in Whitchurch, Shropshire. After gaining a degree in History and Archaeology at Liverpool in 1973, he left the Welsh Marches and joined the Norfolk Archaeological Unit (NAU) as a founding member. He remained there until retirement in 2017. His main interest is medieval rural settlement, though in fieldwork he contended with most periods including prehistory. Since 2000 he has spent the greater part of his work time in finds identification for the Historic Environment Record and Portable Antiquities Scheme. In 1995 he was awarded a PhD by the UEA for his work on Fransham. He is archaeological advisor to the Diocese of Norwich, a member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Judy Sims
Librarian
Judy excavated as a volunteer with the Norfolk Archaeological Unit for 25 years following early retirement in 1991, her interest in research having been inspired by an Open University degree taken while still teaching. Judy joined the Society’s Council and ran the Young Archaeologists Club with a member of the Historical Association between 1988 and 2003. Judy was the Chair of Norfolk Archaeological and Historical Research Group (NAHRG) and from the late 1990s to 2005 and helped run their excavations with Ralph Leake & Peter Robins. She also produced NAHRG’s magazine ‘The Quarlerly’ and the Events Diary for the Federation of Norfolk Archaeological and Historical Societies. Judy has been the Society’s librarian since 2007, managing acquisitions and maintaining the library catalogue, as well as overseeing the relocation of the library to its current home in the Norfolk Record Office.
Paul Spoerry
Trustee
Paul is a freelance archaeological consultant having retired from full-time work as the head of the East of England office of Oxford Archaeology, one of the largest commercial archaeological practices in Europe. Paul is a specialist in medieval ceramics and the archaeology of medieval settlement and landscape, particularly with regard to the southern and eastern parts of the British Isles. He has published widely in these areas and also has research interests in Greece.
Heather Wallis
President and Trustee
Heather is a professional field archaeologist who, for over 30 years, has managed a variety of archaeological projects across Norfolk and north Suffolk. Having previously worked for the Norfolk Archaeological Unit she now works in commercial archaeology on a freelance basis. Her interests are varied including the archaeology of urban centres as well as the wetland archaeology of the Norfolk Broads. Heather has most recently led the fieldwork team investigating the construction and use of Norwich Castle.
Joshua White
Newsletter Editor
Joshua is an archaeologist who has worked in the commercial sector in East Anglia for over a decade, specialising in zooarchaeology and post-excavation analysis. Joshua has published on a wide range of archaeological sites spanning the Early Neolithic to the post-medieval periods. His research interests centre around later prehistoric animal husbandry and medieval rural settlement.
Karen Watling
Honorary Treasurer, Trustee
Karen is a chartered accountant.