Craig Spence (archaeology)

{{Short description|British archaeologist}}

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Craig Spence is an historian and archaeologist.{{cite news|url=http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/Rogue-treasure-hunters-target-historic-sites/story-11193389-detail/story.html|title=Rogue treasure hunters target historic sites|date=February 17, 2009|work=This is Lincolnshire|accessdate=15 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120606144753/http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/Rogue-treasure-hunters-target-historic-sites/story-11193389-detail/story.html|archive-date=6 June 2012|url-status=dead}} He is senior lecturer at Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.{{cite web |url=https://www.bishopg.ac.uk/staff/dr-craig-spence/ |title=Dr Craig Spence – BGU |website=www.bishopg.ac.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025072424/https://www.bishopg.ac.uk/staff/dr-craig-spence/ |archive-date=2018-10-25}}

Spence was employed as an archaeologist with The Museum of London. He continues with practical archaeology every summer, directing an excavation of a Roman Villa site just outside the old Lindum Colonia as part of the Lincoln Archaeological Field School.