Catherine Hills

Catherine Mary Hills
Employer	University of Cambridge
Known for	Early Medieval Archaeology

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]

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.

References

1. "Dr Catherine Mary Hills — Department of Archaeology". www.arch.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
2. Hills, Catherine (2011-07-29). "Philip Rahtz obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
3. Hills, Catherine M. (June 2012). "Women archaeologists in 20th-century Britain. Response to Rachel Pope". Archaeological Dialogues. 19 (1): 75–80. doi:10.1017/S1380203812000116. ISSN 1478-2294. S2CID 162705685.
4. Hills, Catherine (1977). The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Spong Hill, North Elmham. Part I: Catalogue of cremations, nos. 20-64 and 1000-1690. Gressenhall: Norfolk Archaeological Unit.
5. "Fellows Directory - Society of Antiquaries". www.sal.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
6. "Dr Catherine Hills". Newnham College. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
7. Hills, Catherine; Lucy, Sam (2013). Spong Hill IX: Chronology and Synthesis. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. p. 1.
8. Hills, Catherine (2003). The Origins of the English. London: Duckworth.
9. Catterall, Peter (2013). The Making of Channel 4. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. p. 150. ISBN 9781135018870. OCLC 854977136.
10. "The Society for Medieval Archaeology | List of Officers and Council". Retrieved 2019-07-19.