| Admin History | The site with long house and barn at Treworld in Lesnewth (SX 121905) was excavated on behalf of the Ministry of Public Building and Works by Miss Dorothy Dudley and Mrs E.M. Minter. A former history teacher and founder member of the West Cornwall Field Club, Dorothy Dudley undertook and assisted on numerous excavations throughout Cornwall. Appointed 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, was elected a Vice President of West Cornwall Field Club and also Vice President of Cornwall Archaeological Society in 1962 and from 1957 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 and her ashes were left in an Iron Age Hut which she had previously excavated on Garrow Tor. Taken from obituary by Charles Woolf in Cornish Archaeology, No.14, 1975 & 'The Medieval Village at Garrow Tor, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall' by Dorothy Dudley and E.Marie Minter accessed online via (https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-769-1/dissemination/pdf/vol06-07/6_272_294.pdf Acessed 4.11.2016). |