![]() She published works on several important Bronze Age monuments including Enclosures in Wiltshire, stone circles in Dorset and barrows in Hampshire and Wiltshire. In the years following her time working at Sutton Hoo she produced an average of two publications each year for notable regional societies and often for the national journal, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Peggy Piggott (left) directed the excavation of the Bronze Age urnfield cemetery at Latch Farm near Christchurch in 1937. She had directed her first excavation two years previously, at the Middle Bronze Age barrow and urnfield cemetery at Latch Farm, Hampshire, providing a significant contribution to the gazetteer of cremation urns known for the period with the publication of her work. Unlike her portrayal on ‘The Dig’, Peggy was already an experienced archaeologist at this time and, heavily involved in this high profile excavation. It was also during 1939 that Peggy worked as a skilled excavator on the Anglo-Saxon boat burial at Sutton Hoo alongside Charles Phillips. In 1939 she also published work on the Early Iron Age site at Langton Matravers, Dorset, which greatly enhanced knowledge of a period that at that time had only just begun to be understood. She worked on The Prehistoric Society’s first research excavation at Little Woodbury, Wiltshire in 1938-39, alongside Gerhard Bersu. #EGGY PEGGY PROFESSIONAL#Peggy began her professional career by working on the British early Iron Age, writing up the rescue excavation of an Early Iron Age site at Southcote, Berkshire, which appeared in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society in 1937, and publishing the pottery from Iron Age Theale the following year. Image: School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. Peggy Piggott when she was aged 23 examining objects from an excavation with archaeologist E. It was during her time studying for her postgraduate diploma that she met her first husband, Stuart Piggott. She went on to study archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology in London, where she was awarded a postgraduate diploma in Western European Prehistory. She graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1934 with her first degree, then called a ‘diploma for women’. Peggy was especially fond of Tessa, dedicating her glass beads monograph to her memory. As a young woman she met and excavated with Mortimer Wheeler and his wife, Tessa Verney Wheeler, spending her 21 st birthday on site and excavating the Roman town of Verulamium. Peggy displayed an interest in archaeology during her formative years, with a particular interest in Roman coins. Her family home was situated in West Wickham on the line of a Roman road, however, after her father drowned when she was eight her mother re-married and Peggy was brought up by an aunt. Image: School of Archaeology, University of Oxford / Netflix / Hampshire Live.īorn in 1912, the year after the first IWD gathering, Cecily Margaret Guido (née Preston) was born in Beckenham, Kent. She is played in a new Netflix drama by Lily James (right). In December, 2019 the YAM Collections and Exhibitions Committee voted to recommend over 30 works of Peggy Kelley to be accessioned into the YAM’s permanent collection.Peggy Piggott (left) pictured examining pieces from an archaeological dig before she joined the Sutton Hoo excavation in 1939. Peggy Kelley’s travels ended in Billings in December, 2018 and she bequeathed her paintings and drawings to the Yellowstone Art Museum. ![]() ![]() She maintained the awkward qualities of the source material even as she experimented with backgrounds, media, and groupings. These are the photos that inspired Kelley’s work. In between the “good” pictures, were the photographs with blinking eyes, open mouths, turned backs, and not-quite-right exposures. In her words, “My goal is to continue to grow through experiences, and to produce a body of increasingly higher-quality artwork.”īefore digital photography, a roll of film came back from the processor a few days or weeks later. She mastered challenging subjects, painting reflections, hands, hair, and aging skin. Influenced by her work with machines, as well as artists such as Chuck Close, Kelley became interested in Photorealism. A decade later, she earned a BS in Industrial Engineering and began working in the Aerospace Industry. She began studying art in 1954 as she traveled through West Virginia, Arizona, and North Carolina, finally earning her B.F.A in 1970 from Florida Atlantic University. Kelley considered herself an outsider and an observer. ![]()
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