Pope, Rachel 
ORCID: 0000-0001-6178-3481 and Davies, Mairi H
(2023)
PEGGY PIGGOTT: WOMEN AND BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY (1930-1945).
OXFORD JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, 42 (3).
pp. 256-279.
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Abstract
<jats:title>Summary</jats:title><jats:p>The 2021 film, The Dig, stimulated much interest in discovering more about Peggy Piggott, the archaeologist who first ‘struck gold’ at Sutton Hoo. Piggott was a leading British prehistorian, who produced over sixty published works for the field. Here we examine her early life and career, her training with the Curwens and the Wheelers, her marriage to Stuart Piggott, and her recognized expertise that led to her joining the Sutton Hoo team in 1939. During WWII, she established the modern standard for barrow excavation, and in 1944 was recognized by the Society of Antiquaries for her ‘devotion to the study of archaeology’. Piggott provides a lens through which we consider the careers of 1930s women archaeologists – those factors enabling access to archaeology (class, wartime opportunity) and factors that limited progress (lack of a degree, marriage).</jats:p>
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Histories, Languages and Cultures |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jun 2023 10:14 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Aug 2023 09:31 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/ojoa.12275 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3171207 |
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