Stephen Armstrong joined FRAGSUS in 2014 as a research assistant for the first round of excavations, a role he resumed during the second excavation season in 2015. He has additionally made contributions to site reports generated by the excavations and other administrative activities. Stephen graduated from Queens University Belfast in 2015 with a 1st class honours Archaeology Msci and has previously excavated in Umbria, Italy under a joint project between the University of Cambridge and British School of Rome. He recently spent five months as a graduate attaché for the British Institute in Eastern Africa assisting archaeologists working in Pemba and Unguja, Zanzibar and Amboseli, Kenya.