Raksha Dave

Raksha Dave is an archaeologist, TV presenter and the current president of the Council for British Archaeology.

Early life and education Dave is from Lancashire. Dave graduated with a degree in Archaeology from the UCL Institute of Archaeology in 1999.

Career Dave worked with a commercial archaeological unit, primarily excavating in London with the Museum of London Archaeology Service.

Dave featured regularly on Time Team between 2003 and 2013 as a field archaeologist. She was a presenter on season 7 of Digging for Britain, broadcast in 2018. and co-presented Pompeii’s Final Hours: New Evidence for Channel 5. was a trustee for the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) and is a patron of its Young Archaeologists Club.

She was a founding member of the archaeological social-enterprise DigVentures. In 2014, she was the organisation's field school manager.

Dave is a research affiliate of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.