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Archaeological excavations

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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Papers of T.C. Lethbridge and Mina Lethbridge

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10469
Scope and Contents This collection documents the professional and personal lives of Thomas Charles “T.C.” Lethbridge and his wife Mina Elizabeth Lethbridge (nee Leadbitter). Record series include manuscript drafts of published and unpublished works by T.C. Lethbridge relating to archaeology and parapsychology, diaries of Mina Lethbridge, wartime correspondence from T.C. to Mina, photographs of Arctic expeditions, archaeological excavations and maritime subjects, cruise diaries of the ship Zoraida II, papers...
Dates: 1906 - 1993
Conditions Governing Access: Open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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T.C. Lethbridge, 'The ivory tower': word-processed autobiographical account

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9593
Scope and Contents

Typescript autobiographical memoir 'The ivory tower', with a prefatory notice by Mena Lethbridge in which the work is described as 'a picture of Cambridge Academic life between the two World Wars'.

Dates: 1989 (date of prefatory notice by Mina Lethbridge)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Thomas Charles (T.C.) Lethbridge: Archaeological papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9258
Scope and Contents

Comprises: various notebooks relating to expeditions or specific excavation sites or projects; correspondence and collected notes on 'witches', 'pagan burials', Fenland waterways and Fenland research.

Dates: 1916-1971
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).