The branch has two leaders, Pat West and Alun Gruffydd. They as well as assistant leaders and helpers are volunteers and are supported in the running of the branch by the YAC Co-ordinator at York.
Amanda Garett
Amanda Garrett works at the VisitWales centre in Bangor. She has an excellent knowledge of the landscape, history and heritage of Wales. She has a degree in History and Archaeology from University of Wales Bangor. Amanda is interested in flint tools and she also illustrates collections of tools for publication in archaeological reports. She has volunteered as an assistant leader with the club for three years now. She previously volunteered in the Education Department for The National Trust at Penrhyn Castle. Amanda says that the club is an excellent way for young people to get out and see our wonderful heritage, learn new skills and interact with others with similar interests.
Alun Gruffydd
Alun has been interested in archaeology since childhood, when he began reading books about Stonehenge, Rome and the Egyptians.
He went to university at Leicester to study archaeology and graduated from there in 1990. He then worked for the Gwynedd Archaeological Trust for a while before moving to work for the Museums Service for Anglesey County Council.
Alun is particularly interested in early prehistory as well as quernstones (old milling stones).
Alun lives near Llangefni and was also brought up on the island, in Menai Bridge.
Pat West
Pat became interested in history especially social history (how people live) when she was a child listening to her grandmother telling her about her life and living on Anglesey from the early 1900s. Although Pat left school and had many different jobs she still kept her interest. After coming back to live on Anglesey she went to Bangor University to study History and Welsh History and afterwards stayed on to do another course which taught her to be an Archivist – you can find out what that means! In 1991 she became Curator of Bangor Museum and it was here that she started to take an interest in Archaeology because she had to look after a wonderful collection of artefacts (objects) there. In 2002 Pat set up the Gwynedd Branch of the Club with Kate Geary and in 2004 when she came to work for Anglesey County Council it transferred to become the Anglesey Club.
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