Thread by @NatTrustArch

🧵For #MosaicMonday (aka #MillefioriMonday!) it's got to be these: the pyramid mounts from @NT_SuttonHoo. Made of cloisonne goldwork, garnets & coloured glass, these were the first gold artefacts found during the 1939 excavation 1/ britishmuseum.org/collection/obj…
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As shown in #TheDig, they were found by Lily James's character #PeggyPiggott, who was born in Kent in 1912. She was an experienced archeologist when she arrived @NT_SuttonHoo, she had studied @Cambridge_Uni & @UCLarchaeology, directed her own dig & published several papers 2/

Her career spanned 60 yrs & she is recognised for her field methods, research into prehistoric settlements, burial traditions & artefact studies (particularly glass beads). She reconsidered #FigsburyRing & a bequest from her helped us to acquire meadowland around Silbury Hill 3/

From the late 80s, Peggy was President of the Wilts Archaeological & Natural History Soc with her former husband Stuart. @WiltshireMuseum has this portrait & the measuring tape she used at @NT_SuttonHoo: wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/?artwork=mrs-c…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_… @preshitorian @DrMairiDavies

Peggy was included in @trowelblazers #RaisingHorizons photographic project & exhibition about women in #archaeology, #geology & #palaeontology, and depicted by @preshitorian
trowelblazers.com/raising-horizo…
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