[5] She initially attended evening classes in archaeology whilst at secondary school and excavated with Graham Webster in her free time.

[6][7] Price was a longstanding member of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society and served on its council and house & finance committee.

[4] She served as the Chair of Roman Archaeology Section of the society from 1991 to 2008, succeeding Herman Ramm in the post.

[4] In 1988, along with her partner Sue Hardman, and the other researcher Stephen Briggs and Peter Wilson, Price published a Festschrift for Mary Kitson Clark, a leading female authority on Roman Yorkshire titled Recent Research in Roman Yorkshire: studies in honour of Mary Kitson Clark (Mrs Derwas Chitty).

[8] This showed that the bottle was made in the Black Sea area, and is the only vessel of its kind ever found in Britain, making it startlingly rare.