Catalogue description Papers of Sir Mortimer Wheeler, FSA, Katherine M Richardson, FSA, and others on Hill Forts of Northern France

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Title: Papers of Sir Mortimer Wheeler, FSA, Katherine M Richardson, FSA, and others on Hill Forts of Northern France
Description:

Papers of Sir Mortimer Wheeler, FSA (1890-1976), Katherine M. Richardson, FSA, and others relating to excavations and sites visited in Brittany and Normandy for a survey of Iron-Age camps. Excavation was interrupted by the outbreak of war and not all records have survived. See the reports of the 1938 expedition in Antiquity, 13 (1939), 58-79; 1939 expedition, A.J., 21 (1941), 265-70, and Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Katherine M. Richardson, Hill-Forts of Northern France (SA Research Report no. 19, 1957). Related plans, drawings and photographs (HIF/011) are kept separately with SA Prints and Drawings Collections. See the list with the collection for a full description.

Date: 1936-56
Held by: Society of Antiquaries of London, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: SAL/MS/951/1-15; MS 951
Creator:

Wheeler, Sir Robert Eric Mortimer (1890-1976) Knight, archaeologist

Immediate source of acquisition:

Bequeathed by Sir Mortimer Wheeler, 1976. Photographs presented earlier. See A.J., 57 (1977), 454-5 (obituary of Wheeler); 59 (1979), 6 (bequest), 550.

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