Archaeologist #MortimerWheeler was born 135 years ago #OnThisDay.

Armchair Voyage – presented by Wheeler – was the #BBC’s first TV history documentary, establishing a format that is still popular today.

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Here's some fun #archaeofashion from #currentarchaeology 128; also a minor mystery. It shows #MortimerWheeler (left); #RaleghRadford (centre); and #KittyRichardson (right). But who is the un-named fourth figure, I presume also an #archaeologist? It's from a field-tour around #Brittany in 1938

Mortimer-Wheelers interpretation of the "Battle Cemetery" at Maiden Castle has been proven to be incorrect after a re-analysis of the skeletal material: www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2518005... #MaidenCastle #MortimerWheeler #Archaeology