 During his studies , Wheeler had developed his love of archaeology , having joined an excavation of <unk> <unk> , a Romano @-@ British settlement in <unk> , in 1913 . Considering a profession in the discipline , he won a <unk> that had been established jointly by the University of London and the Society of Antiquaries in memory of Augustus <unk> Franks . The prominent archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans doubled the amount of money that went with the <unk> . Wheeler 's proposed project had been to <unk> Romano @-@ Rhenish pottery , and with the grant he funded a trip to the Rhineland in Germany , there studying the Roman pottery housed in local museums ; his research into this subject was never published . 
