After graduating in 1996 from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London Steve began working at the prestigious wetland world heritage site of Flag Fen in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.  It was during his time at Flag Fen that he became interested in British prehistory, particulary that of the Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire fens. Between 1998 and 2000 he worked for several large field units throughout London and was fortunate to have worked for the Museum of London archaeological Service on the large Roman and medieval cemetery site of Spitalfields in the City of London. In mid 2000 he returned to work in Cambridgeshire, this time for the Cambridge Archaeological Unit.  During his time at Cambridge he had the opportunity to work on some of the large scale prehistoric sites within the Flag Fen basin and was also given the responsibility to direct evaluations and excavations, many of which were located throughout the well known Prehistoric and Romano-British rich landscape of the Fengate region of Peterborough.