Catherine Hills

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Catherine Mary Hills
Employer University of Cambridge
Known forEarly Medieval Archaeology

Catherine Mary Hills, FSA is a British archaeologist and academic, who is a leading expert in Anglo-Saxon material culture. She is a senior research fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. [1]

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Education

In the 1960s, Hill excavated with Philip Rahtz at Beckery chapel, Glastonbury. [2]

Career

She was appointed as a lecturer in Cambridge in 1977 in the Department of Archaeology. [3] Previous to that she was a Field Officer for Norfolk Archaeological Unit. [4] Hills was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1978. [5] She was a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. [6]

Hills was closely associated with the excavation of the early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery at Spong Hill, North Elmham, Norfolk, where she directed excavations from 1974 until the completion of excavations in 1981. [4] [7] Hills' post-excavation analyses of this major site led to substantial contributions in the fields of early Anglo-Saxon archaeology, particularly regarding burial and migration, [8] and more recently the chronology of the 5th century. [7]

She presented the Channel 4 series The Blood of the British. [9] She was Vice-President of the Society for Medieval Archaeology from 2017-2022. [10]

Selected publications

References

  1. "Dr Catherine Mary Hills — Department of Archaeology". www.arch.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  2. Hills, Catherine (2011-07-29). "Philip Rahtz obituary". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  3. Hills, Catherine M. (June 2012). "Women archaeologists in 20th-century Britain. Response to Rachel Pope" . Archaeological Dialogues. 19 (1): 75–80. doi:10.1017/S1380203812000116. ISSN   1478-2294. S2CID   162705685.
  4. 1 2 Hills, Catherine (1977). The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Spong Hill, North Elmham. Part I: Catalogue of cremations, nos. 20-64 and 1000-1690. Gressenhall: Norfolk Archaeological Unit.
  5. "Fellows Directory - Society of Antiquaries". www.sal.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  6. "Dr Catherine Hills". Newnham College. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  7. 1 2 Hills, Catherine; Lucy, Sam (2013). Spong Hill IX: Chronology and Synthesis. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. p. 1.
  8. Hills, Catherine (2003). The Origins of the English. London: Duckworth.
  9. Catterall, Peter (2013). The Making of Channel 4. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. p. 150. ISBN   9781135018870. OCLC   854977136.
  10. "The Society for Medieval Archaeology | List of Officers and Council" . Retrieved 2019-07-19.