Catherine Mary Hills 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]
Catherine Mary Hills | |
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| Employer | University of Cambridge |
| Known for | Early Medieval Archaeology |
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
- Hills, C. (1979). The archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England in the pagan period: A review. Anglo-Saxon England, 8, 297-329. doi:10.1017/S0263675100003112
- Hills C.M. (1986). The Blood of the British. London: George Philip
- Hills C.M. (2003). Origins of the English. London: Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd.
- Hills, C. (2007). History and archaeology: The state of play in early medieval Europe. Antiquity 81(311), 191-200. doi:10.1017/S0003598X0009493X
- Hills, C. (2011) Overview: Anglo‐Saxon Identity. The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology. Oxford: OUP.
- Hills C. and Lucy S. (2013). Spong Hill Part IX. Chronology and Synthesis. Cambridge: McDonald Inst of Archaeological Research.