In April 2017, Dave married Nigel Jeffries, an expert in medieval and post-medieval pottery at the Museum of London.[2]
Career
Dave worked with a commercial archaeological unit, primarily excavating in London with the Museum of London Archaeology Service.[1] She also excavated at the World Heritage Site of Catalhoyuk in Turkey, and sites in Texas and Puerto Rico.[3]
Dave featured regularly on Time Team between 2003 and 2013 as a field archaeologist.[4] She was a presenter on season 7 of Digging for Britain, broadcast in 2018.[1] She presented the BBC Learning ZoneAncient Voices programme on prehistory, broadcast in 2015,[5] and co-presented Pompeii’s Final Hours: New Evidence for Channel 5.[1]
Other TV work includes The Bone Detectives (2020) and Digging Up Britain's Past (2020).
Dave is an advocate for increasing the diversity of archaeologists,[6] was a trustee for the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) and is a patron of its Young Archaeologists Club.[1] In July 2021 CBA announced that Dave had taken up the three-year presidency of the organisation.[7]
She is a co-founder of the archaeological social-enterprise DigVentures.[8]