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

This material is held atSociety of Antiquaries of London

Reference
- GB 118 HIF
Former Reference
- GB 118 SAL/MS/951/1-15; MS 951
Dates of Creation
- 1936-56
Name of Creator
- Wheeler, Robert Eric Mortimer (1890-1976) Knight, archaeologist
  Richardson, Katherine (d 1993), archaeologist
Language of Material
- English
Physical Description
- 8 boxes and maps (kept separately).

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).

Access Information

open for consultation

Acquisition Information

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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