Vera Evison

Vera Ivy Evison FSA (23 January 1918 – 18 March 2018) was a British archaeologist and professor of archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London.[1][2][3] She was a specialist in Post-Roman Britain and early-Medieval England

Vera Evison

FSA
Born(1918-01-23)23 January 1918
Lewisham, London, UK
Died18 March 2018(2018-03-18) (aged 100)
OccupationArchaeologist
Academic background
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeology

Career

Evison attended Lewisham Prendergast school until 1937, following this with a series of evening classes, in subject including archaeology, before studying BA English language and literature. Her studies were supported by working as a secretary for Kathleen Kenyon at the London University Institute of Archaeology. In 1947 she went to study archaeology in Stockholm under Nils Åberg. She also worked as a volunteer assistant at the British Museum, helping to unpack Anglo-Saxon objects (including grave goods from Sutton Hoo), once they were returned to the galleries after the Second World War.[1]

She joined Birkbeck as a part-time lecturer in 1947, rising to professor in 1979 and retiring in 1983.[1]

Evison also worked for the Ancient Monuments Inpsectorate (for the Ministry of Works) excavating sites prior to their destruction. Through this she brought six Anglo-Saxon cemeteries to publication: Buckland (Dover); Great Chesterford (Essex); Holborough Hill (Kent); two at Beckford (Herefordshire); and Alton (Hampshire).[3]

She was elected as Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in May 1955.[3]

Select publications
  • 1957. "A group of late Saxon brooches", The Antiquaries Journal 37 (3-4). 220-222.
  • 1963. "Suagr-loaf shield bosses", The Antiquaries Journal 43(1). 38-69.
  • 1966. "A Bronze Mount from the Roman Villa at Lullingstone, Kent", The Antiquaries Journal 46(1). 85-87.
  • 1979. A corpus of wheel-thrown pottery in Anglo-Saxon graves
  • 1996. (with Hill, P.). Two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries at Beckford, Hereford and Worcester CBA Research Reports 103.
  • 2008. Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Glass in the British Museum

References
  1. Hills, Catherine; Webster, Leslie (May 31, 2018). "Vera Evison obituary" – via www.theguardian.com.
  2. "Vera Evison (1918-2018)", Catherine Hills & Leslie Webster, Archaeology International, No. 21 (2018), pp. 14-15.
  3. "Fellows Remembered:Vera Evison FSA". SALON: The Online Newsletter of the Society of Antiquaries of London (404). 10 April 2018.
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