25 Facts About Peggy Guido

Peggy Guido's mother "ran away" from the family home when Peggy was five, and this was followed by divorce proceedings which started in 1918.

Peggy Guido's father had appointed his brother, Edwin Mumford Preston, as guardian for his children, and so Peggy and her siblings were then brought up by Edwin and his wife.

Peggy Guido was particularly fond of Tessa, and spoke of her with great affection, dedicating her glass beads monograph to her memory.

From 1935 to 1936, Peggy Guido studied archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology in London, where she was awarded a postgraduate diploma in Western European Prehistory.

Peggy Guido began her archaeological career by working on the Early Iron Age.

Peggy Guido began by writing up the rescue excavation of an Early Iron Age site at Southcote, which appeared in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society in 1937, and publishing the pottery from Iron Age Theale the following year.

Peggy Guido worked here with Gerhard Bersu, who seems to have been as great an influence on Guido as the Wheelers.

In 1939, Peggy Guido published a further Early Iron Age site at Langton Matravers, greatly enhancing knowledge of a period that by then had only just begun to be elucidated.

Peggy Guido was a skilled excavator and heavily involved in the high-profile excavation of the Anglo-Saxon boat burial at Sutton Hoo with Charles Phillips.

Peggy Guido was awarded funding in the late 1940s by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland to test the model of Iron Age settlement development in southern Scotland in response to a Council for British Archaeology policy statement regarding the misleading nature of settlement classification from surface remains.

Peggy Guido worked with her husband on her sixth hillfort excavation: the site of Braidwood Fort.

Beyond elucidating relative settlement chronologies, Peggy Guido's reconstruction drawing of the Hayhope roundhouse was to become the modern standard.

Peggy Guido simplified this in line with the earlier Northumbrian work of Wake and Kilbride-Jones, which went on to influence Brewster at Staple Howe.

Peggy Guido became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1946.

Peggy Guido worked with him on the site of Braidwood Fort until their twenty-year marriage was annulled in 1956.

Peggy Guido then moved to Sicily, briefly reverting to her maiden name of Preston.

Peggy Guido used it in the translation that she and her second husband Luigi Guido made of Bernabo Brea's Sicily before the Greeks.

Peggy Guido co-founded the Bead Study Trust, and the Peggy Guido Fund for Research on Beads.

In 1977, Peggy Guido moved from Brock Street, Bath to Long Street in Devizes and became involved with Devizes Museum, now the Wiltshire Museum.

Peggy Guido was a highly skilled excavator and a prolific researcher.

Peggy Guido's method had taken the best of both the Wheeler and Bersu schools of excavation, scaled down for rapid assessment.

Peggy Guido produced as many as fifty works for British prehistory, in particular advancing the fields of Bronze Age burial traditions, Late Bronze Age artefact studies, Later Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement studies, and of course Prehistoric, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon glass beads.

Margaret Peggy Guido died in a hospital in Bath on 8 September 1994.

Peggy Guido is given a prominent role in a 2007 novel on the subject of the Sutton Hoo excavation, The Dig, written by her nephew, John Preston.

Peggy Guido is portrayed by Lily James in the film adaptation of the same name, released on Netflix in January 2021.