| Admin History | Dorothy Dudley was a former history teacher and founder member of the West Cornwall Field Club (later the Cornwall Archaeological Society). She undertook and assisted on numerous archaeological excavations throughout Cornwall. Through her role as Correspondent in Cornwall to the Ministry of Works she served as a point of contact for new discoveries or threatened sites, working closely with local farmers and landowners. She was appointed as Recorder in Archaeology to the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies (an office she held until 1972), became a Bard of the Gorsedh in 1949, and was elected a Vice President of West Cornwall Field Club and also Vice President of Cornwall Archaeological Society in 1962. From 1957 she sat on the Council of the Royal Institute of Cornwall. In 1962 she was also awarded the Henwood Gold Medal by the Institution for her archaeological work in Cornwall. Dorothy was affectionately known as D. D to her many friends of whom Charles Woolf was one. She died on the 26th of March 1975 aged 90. Her ashes were left in an Iron Age Hut which she had previously excavated on Garrow Tor. (Taken from obituary by Charles Woolf in âCornish Archaeologyâ, No.14, 1975). |