Hi,

May I introduce my-self, I am Joanne Duijns (the dark one) and live in the Netherlands.

To be precise a small village called Reek. It lies in the middle, 15 km from s’Hertogenbosch and 15 km from Nijmegen, in the province Brabant. Very near the river Maas (Meuse).

Born in the UK, I lived in New Haven till I was eight, storybook childhood with The South Downs, Doctor Who, Dougle, Whinny the Pooh and Alice in Wonderland. Then my mother remarried a Dutchman and we moved to the Netherlands, From here on I grew up in the Netherlands and Germany.

My age is 45 (5-7-1957) and up until now I have been an armchair TimeTeam enthusiast, this being the only TV program I will watch regularly. This was until I decided to go and find myself a piece of pottery, as we have Iron-age/Bronze/ Neolithic sites near here.

Now I still have not found my pottery, but a puzzling gravel patch, with stone tools and stone imaging. So now I am an enthusiastic amateur, with too much for me to cope or understand. It all looks to date back before the Iron age and thus bringing me to the major time interest of 3000 bc / 1000 bc. And European linking.

For a living I have in the past been part of a project development team and now the last five years I have got my certificates and degrees at the Graphical Lyceum Eindhoven in Multimedia design and work now allot with Imaging and photography.

I am very pleased to take part in archaeology and now have the opportunity to be part of Brigantesnation by contributing Dutch finds and interests.

I share most of my interest with my friend Paul who is a designer and painter (art). I Like Classical music through to Techno, Minimal, Fine arts, Irish literature, photography, history, - and archaeology.

Future wishes, maybe one or two years work in the UK, so I will have the possibility to study a year in the UK and go museum, photography, finds and site hunting.

And not to forget meet all the wonderful people I have met on the TimeTeam forum.

By for now Joanne.