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

Reference code
HIF
Title
Papers of Sir Mortimer Wheeler, FSA, Katherine M Richardson, FSA, and others on Hill Forts of Northern France
Date
1936-56
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and format
Notebooks, plans, drawings, photographs and unbound papers.
Scope and content
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).
Creator
Wheeler, Robert Eric Mortimer (1890-1976), Knight, archaeologist
Richardson, Katherine (d 1993), archaeologist
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/951/1-15
MS 951
Archival history
Bequeathed by Sir Mortimer Wheeler, 1976. Photographs presented earlier. See A.J., 57 (1977), 454-5 (obituary of Wheeler); 59 (1979), 6 (bequest), 550.
Related units of description
The pottery brought to England by Wheeler was kept temporarily at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford (1994).

The main Mortimer Wheeler archive is at UCL Special Collections (https://archives.ucl.ac.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=WHEELER).
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