Sally Ann Worrell is a British archaeologist specialising in

Romano-British The Romano-British culture arose in Britain under the Roman Empire following the Roman conquest in AD 43 and the creation of the province of Britannia. It arose as a fusion of the imported Roman culture with that of the indigenous Britons, ...

material culture.

Education

Worrel studied at

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, graduating with a

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(BA) degree in 1994 and a

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(MA) degree in 1997.

Career

Worrell is a Senior Research Associate at

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, having joined the university in May 2003. Worrell worked as the Finds Liaison Officer for Hampshire for the

Portable Antiquities Scheme The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme began in 1997 and now covers ...

before taking up the role of National Finds Adviser (Prehistoric, Iron Age, and Roman Artefacts) there. Whilst working as FLO for Hampshire she appeared in an episode of

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. Since 2003 she has contributed to the annual reporting of Romano-British metal detected finds to the journal ''

Britannia The image of Britannia () is the national personification of United Kingdom, Britain as a helmeted female warrior holding a trident and shield. An image first used by the Romans in classical antiquity, the Latin was the name variously appli ...

''. She was elected as a Fellow of the

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on 3 March 2007.

Select publications

*Worrell, S. 1997. Marton, North Lincolnshire: a Romano-British settlement in its context. * *Hill, J. D., La Niece, S., Spence, A. and Worrell, S. 2004. "The Winchester Hoard: a find of unique Iron Age gold jewellery from southern England", ''Antiquaries Journal'' 84, 1-22.

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London British women archaeologists 20th-century British archaeologists 21st-century British archaeologists British women classical scholars People associated with the Portable Antiquities Scheme {{Archaeologist-stub