Maranda has a BSc (Hons) in Archaeology and Anthropology, and has worked at Oxford Archaeology since 2019. She has a wide variety of skills from field excavation, digital illustration, photography, video production, editing, typesetting, and photogrammetry.  

Maranda’s archaeological interests are quite varied, and include forensic taphonomy, osteoarchaeology, and the archaeology of domestic life and childhood. She began her career at OA as a fresh-faced graduate trainee and has worked on various pre-historic sites across the UK before undertaking filming and outreach content creation. She has liaised with the BBC’s Digging for Britain and local media outlets, as well as commercial clients to create digital content of the amazing sites and artefacts from OA’s various projects.  

Prior to working at Oxford Archaeology, Maranda worked as a real estate agent in her hometown of Houston, Texas whilst maintaining a freelance commercial film and photography business, specialising in product, portrait, editorial, and real estate photography. In her free time, she enjoys horseback riding, travel photography, embroidery, and reading. 

Marie graduated with honours from Boston University, Massachusetts in 2002, with a BA in both archaeology and religion. Marie subsequently graduated from the University of York in 2003 with an MA in Archaeological Heritage Management. Since then, she has volunteered with several museums, worked as an assistant outreach officer at Chester Amphitheatre, and has worked for Oxford Archaeology since 2006.  

Marie has become a core part of the Illustration and Publications team at Oxford Archaeology's Lancaster office, with skills in manual illustration of artefacts, digital illustration, book design and typesetting, and GIS and AutoCAD. Marie is particularly interested in book production, outreach and education, and Iron Age and Roman pottery. 

Marie has produced many archaeological monographs, popular publications, interpretation panels, leaflets, reconstructions, and also a teachers' pack. She also helped produce several issues of Oxford Archaeology’s internal magazine and has helped with several outreach events.

Séverine Bézie graduated in 1998 from University of Poitiers (France) with a BA (Hons) in Modern History and a University Diploma in Applied Art and Graphics. She obtained a Master's Degree in Museology and Archaeology at the University of Lyon III: Jean Moulin (France) in 2000 and studied Classical Archaeology with the University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2014-16. 

Séverine joined Oxford Archaeology in 2005. She has almost 23 years’ experience in field archaeology, finds processing, restoration, and archaeological illustration. Before joining Oxford Archaeology, she worked several years in Italy with the French School of Rome (Rome, Southern Etruria, Pompei). She specialises in Roman finds illustration and, in addition to her illustration work, is a Roman pottery specialist, member of the Study Group for Roman Pottery, and continues her collaboration with the French School of Rome, and occasionally with English Heritage (Etal Castle, Denny Abbey, Bury St Edmund Abbey guidebooks). 

Anthony has worked at Oxford Archaeology for 15+ years. During this time, he has worked in all three offices in various roles. He joined our Lancaster office as an archaeologist and moved to our Cambridge office, where he was a fieldwork project officer. He was the regional H&S advisor for our eastern office for 7 years. As an archaeologist Anthony is interested in Mesolithic flintwork and aviation archaeology. 

Anthony was offered the opportunity to become a full time Group Health, Safety and Environment advisor in 2021 following a change in personal circumstance. The role primarily assists the COO in developing Health, Safety and Environmental policy and procedures. 

Anthony has gained NEBOSH qualifications in Construction Health and Safety and Environmental management. He also has IEMA certificate in Carbon Management.  

Anthony is a Technical Member of IOSH (TechIOSH), an Associate member of CIfA (ACIfA) and an affiliate member of IEMA. 

Annsofie holds a BA in Archaeology and Prehistory and a MSc in Osteology, Palaeopathology and Funerary Archaeology, both from the University of Sheffield. In 2011 she completed her PhD at the University of Bristol which focussed on the post-medieval Bristol Royal Infirmary population  

Annsofie is a member of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) and has over 20 years of experience working as an Osteoarchaeologist and has a number of publications. Her passion lies within palaeopathology and the investigation of health within past populations as well as surgical and medical interventions during the post-medieval period.  

She first joined the Heritage Burial Services at Oxford Archaeology in 2000 and was involved with numerous projects of all time periods until leaving in 2005. She re-joined in 2020 and has since worked on several of projects, notably Trinity Burial Ground, Hull. 

With a BSc in Archaeology and an MSc in Osteoarchaeology from Bournemouth, Helen joined OA’s Fieldwork Department in 2006, transferring to Heritage Burial Services two years later. Helen has extensive experience in all aspects of burial archaeology, including fieldwork, osteological analysis and reporting, and publication, as well as providing expert guidance on burial excavation, and undertaking burials-related teaching and outreach. A member of the Institute for Archaeologists (MIfA) and the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO), her specialisms within the field of osteoarchaeology include medieval and post-medieval burial grounds, and peri-mortem trauma. Some of Helen’s key projects and publications include the excavation and analysis of WWI mass graves in Fromelles, France, the analysis of a Viking mass grave, Weymouth, and the excavation and analysis of the post-medieval Radcliffe Infirmary Burial Ground, Oxford.

Lauren graduated with a BA in Archaeology and Prehistory from the University of Sheffield in 2004. She since gained an MSc in Human Osteology and Funerary Archaeology, and completed a doctoral thesis exploring palaeodemography, diet and health in the population of Roman York. Her specialisms within the field of osteoarchaeology include palaeodemographic analysis and Romano-British urban populations.

A member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA), the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO), Lauren has substantial experience working as an osteoarchaeologist for a variety of institutions, both on site and in the laboratory. Lauren joined the team at Heritage Burial Services as a project officer in August 2015, and has contributed to variety of notable projects including Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, St. Paul’s church in Hammersmith, and Trinity Burial Ground in Hull. In her spare time, Lauren is an avid champion of the independent horror film scene.