Matt Williams, Time Team digger

Scrambling about in mud
One of the new diggers for the 2004 series, Matt Williams is an accomplished field archaeologist. He also has an interest in educating people about archaeology.

'I always wanted to do archaeology ever since I was little,' says Matt. 'I used to scramble about in the mud as a kid and ended up doing an archaeology degree at the Institute of Archaeology in London.'

After university
After leaving university, Matt went on to work for five years as a field archaeologist for Oxford Archaeology and the London field unit MOLAS (Museum of London Archaeological Service).

'After that I went back to university and did an MA degree in public archaeology because I didn't think enough people were involved in their local archaeology and I wanted to find out more about why,' he says. 'I now work as a consultant for L-P: Archaeology.'

Matt saw an advert on the internet for Time Team diggers and applied. Following an interview he started work with the Team at the first programme filmed for the 2004 series at Syndale in Kent.

Favourite dig
'I think my favourite one so far has to be Inverness because it was such a great place to be and we had a real laugh at the hotel. As for archaeology, that's difficult. The street side at Roxeter was pretty good.'

Matt Williams answers some of our questions

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