Crystal Bennett
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Crystal-Margaret Bennett OBE FSA |
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| Born |
Crystal-Margaret Rawlings 20 August 1918 Alderney, Channel Islands |
| Died | 12 August 1987 Bruton, Somerset |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | UCL Institute of Archaeology |
| Influences | Kathleen Kenyon |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Near Eastern archaeologist |
| Sub discipline | Biblical archaeology in Palestine and Jordan |
| Institutions | |
Crystal-Margaret Bennett, OBE FSA (1918–1987) was a British archaeologist. A student of Kathleen Kenyon, Bennett was a pioneer of archaeological research in Jordan and founded the British Institute at Amman for Archaeology and History.
Crystal-Margaret Rawlings was born to George Rawlings, a soldier, and Elizabeth Rawlings (née Jennings) of Alderney, one of the Channel Islands, on 20 August 1918. She was the third of five children. She attended La Retraite Convent School on Alderney and then Bristol University, where she studied English. At the age of 22 she married draughtsman Philip Roy Bennett (1907–1986), converting from the Church of England to Roman Catholicism in order to do so. The marriage lasted six years; the couple separated in 1946, a year after the birth of their only child Simon Bennett. Following the divorce, Bennett moved in with her former mother-in-law and raised her son Simon.
In 1954 Bennett enrolled at the Institute of Archaeology in London (now part of University College London) to study for a postgraduate diploma in the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces in the West. She participated in excavations led by Sheppard Frere, and directed two excavations of her own: a Roman villa near Cox Green, Berkshire; and a Romano-British temple near her home in Bruton, Somerset. She then took a second postgraduate diploma in Palestianian Archaeology, which she studied under Kathleen Kenyon.
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