Tessa Wheeler
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Tessa Wheeler was a South Africa-born English archaeologist who made significant contributions to techniques used in archaeological excavation and contributed to the setting up of major British archae
Excavating at Verulamium in the early 1930s
Memorial to Tessa Wheeler in the UCL Institute of Archaeology
The excavations at Maiden Castle, Dorset in October 1937 were led by Mortimer Wheeler. Photograph by Major George Allen (1891–1940).
Wheeler–Kenyon method
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The Wheeler–Kenyon method is a method of archaeological excavation. The technique originates from the work of Mortimer Wheeler and Tessa Wheeler at Verulamium, and was later refined by Kathleen Kenyon
Tessa Wheeler
…in the winter of 1926–27. The excavation methods they used, for example the grid system (later developed further by Kathleen Kenyon and known as the Wheeler-Kenyon method), were significant advances in archaeological method, although later superseded. They were influenced greatly by the work of the archaeologist Lieutenant…
Excavation at Moza, Israel