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Stuart Piggott
CBE FBA FSA FSA Scot
Born28 May 1910
Petersfield, Hampshire
Died23 September 1996(1996-09-23) (aged 86)
Wantage, Oxfordshire
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipBritish
Spouse
Peggy Piggott
(m. 1936; div. 1956)
Scientific career
FieldsArchaeology
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh

Stuart Ernest Piggott, CBE, FBA, FSA, FRSE, FSA Scot (28 May 1910 – 23 September 1996) was a British archaeologist, best known for his work on prehistoric Wessex.

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Peggy Guido

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Scot (née Preston; 5 August 1912 – 8 September 1994), also known as Peggy Piggott, was an English archaeologist, prehistorian, and finds specialist. Her...

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Cerne Abbas Giant

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 277–82. Stuart Piggott, "Notes and News: The name of the giant of Cerne", Antiquity, Vol. 6, No. 22, June 1932, pp. 214–16. Stuart Piggott, "The Hercules...

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Kennet Avenue

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between the Neolithic sites of Avebury and The Sanctuary. Excavations by Stuart Piggott and Alexander Keiller in the 1930s indicated that around 100 pairs of...

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Neolithic British Isles

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and synthesis went ahead, dominated by figures like V. Gordon Childe, Stuart Piggott, Julian Thomas and Richard Bradley. The period that preceded the Neolithic...

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Maeshowe

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of Neolithic craftsmanship and is, in the words of the archaeologist Stuart Piggott, "a superlative monument that by its originality of execution is lifted...

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jobs available within British archaeology; as the later archaeologist Stuart Piggott related, "the young Wheeler was looking for a professional job where...

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Pastmasters: Eleven Modern Pioneers of Archaeology: V. Gordon Childe, Stuart Piggott, Charles Phillips, Christopher Hawkes, Seton Lloyd, Robert J. Braidwood...

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Cairnpapple Hill

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was completely concealed by trees, then in 1947–1948 excavations by Stuart Piggott found a series of ritual monuments from successive prehistoric periods...

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Corrimony chambered cairn

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as Clava cairns. The site was excavated by archaeologist Professor Stuart Piggott, in 1952. One skeleton and one artefact were uncovered during the investigation...

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Knap of Howar

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Orkney: A Historical Guide. Edinburgh. Birlinn. Scotland Before History - Stuart Piggott, (Edinburgh University Press. 1982) ISBN 0-85224-348-0 Scotland's Hidden...

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Grooved ware

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was previously referred to as Rinyo-Clacton ware, first identified by Stuart Piggott in the 1950s and named after sites where it was found. Rinyo is a neolithic...

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Stonehenge

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outside the Sarsen Circle called the Y and Z Holes. Richard Atkinson, Stuart Piggott and John F. S. Stone re-excavated much of Hawley's work in the 1940s...

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Clava cairn

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more controversial. grid reference NH757445 Scotland Before History – Stuart Piggott, Birlinn Limited (1995), ISBN 0-85224-348-0 Scotland's Hidden History...

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William Stukeley

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subject of multiple biographies and academic studies by scholars like Stuart Piggott, David Boyd Haycock and Ronald Hutton. Stukeley was born on 7 November...

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Votadini

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Britain] Votadini MCC General references Scotland Before History – Stuart Piggott, Edinburgh University Press 1982, ISBN 0-85224-348-0 Scotland's Hidden...

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Sutton Hoo

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O.G.S. Crawford of the Ordnance Survey, Peggy Piggott (later known as Margaret Guido) and Stuart Piggott, and other friends and colleagues. Extensive photography...

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Druid

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emerges from the classical world of Greece and Rome. Archaeologist Stuart Piggott compared the attitude of the Classical authors toward the druids as...

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List of feature films with gay characters

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United States 2021 The Dig Stuart Piggott Ben Chaplin In the movie, the marriage between real life archeologists Stuart Piggott and his wife Peggy is portrayed...

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Karasuk culture

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these sites are extremely similar to those of the Shang state. [...] As Stuart Piggott has pointed out, the similarities of the complex structure of the chariot...

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Aubrey holes

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holes were excavated by Hawley in 1920 and seven more in 1924. In 1950 Stuart Piggott and Richard Atkinson dug two more Aubrey Holes which brought the total...

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Avebury

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stones, and to build concrete 'pylons' in the place of missing stones. Stuart Piggott co-directed excavations; local archaeologist William E V Young served...

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