Helen Wickstead

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Helen Wickstead
FSA
OccupationsSenior Lecturer and Course Director at Kingston School of Art
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeology

Helen Wickstead FSA MCIfA FHEA is a British archaeologist, museologist, and is Senior Lecturer at Kingston University. [1]

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Biography

Wickstead has a PhD from University College London in 2007 with a thesis titled "Land division and identity in later prehistoric Dartmoor, south-west Britain: Translocating tenure". [2]

Her research includes history of archaeology, including biographical work on individuals including: Doris Emerson Chapman, on her work at Avebury; O. G. S. Crawford on his role as Archaeology Officer of the Ordnance Survey; [3] and George Witt's 'Collection Illustrative of Phallic Worship', held at the British Museum's 'Secretum'.

In 2013, Helen Wickstead and Martyn Barber excavated long barrows at Damerham in Hampshire. [4]

On 18 November 2021 she was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Dr Helen Wickstead MCIfA FSA". Kingston University. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
  2. ↑ Wickstead, H. (2007). Land division and identity in later prehistoric Dartmoor, south-west Britain: Translocating tenure (Thesis). University College London.
  3. ↑ Skeates, Robin (2025). "Editorial". Antiquity. 99 (406): 901–914. doi:10.15184/aqy.2025.10145. ISSN   0003-598X.
  4. ↑ "Site yields 6,000-year-old tombs". 2009-06-11. Retrieved 2025-12-16.
  5. ↑ "Dr Helen Wickstead FSA". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
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