13 Facts About Stuart Piggott

On leaving school in 1927 Piggott took up a post as assistant at Reading Museum, where he developed an expertise in Neolithic pottery.

Stuart Piggott worked with Eliot Cecil Curwen on their excavations at The Trundle causewayed enclosure in Sussex.

Still without any formal archaeological qualification, Stuart Piggott enrolled at Mortimer Wheeler's Institute of Archaeology, London, taking his diploma in 1936.

Stuart Piggott was posted to India, where he spent time studying the archaeology of the sub-continent, eventually leading him to write the books Some Ancient Cities of India and Prehistoric India.

Stuart Piggott succeeded in making Edinburgh an archaeology department of international standing.

Stuart Piggott considered that radiocarbon dating was "archaeologically unacceptable", because every other shred of evidence pointed towards his dates being correct.

In 1958 Stuart Piggott published a survey of Scottish prehistory, Scotland before History, and in 1959 a popular introductory volume, Approach to Archaeology.

Stuart Piggott died of a heart attack at his home near Wantage in Oxfordshire on 23 September 1996.

Stuart Piggott became better known under her second married name, Margaret Guido.

Stuart Piggott's proposers were Robert Schlapp, David Whitteridge, Sidney Newman, and James Ritchie.

Stuart Piggott received the CBE in 1972, and was awarded numerous academic awards from scholarly institutions in Britain and abroad.

Stuart Piggott retired from the Abercromby Chair in 1977 and was awarded the gold medal of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1983 and the Grahame Clark Medal of the British Academy in 1992.

Vincent Megaw commented that "as [Stuart Piggott] himself has said, although he has done his fair share of field work and excavation, his prime concern has been to produce works of synthesis and interpretation".