Peter Addyman
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Peter Addyman CBE FSA |
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12 July 1939 Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Archaeologist |
| Years active | 1962–present |
| Known for | Founding Director of the York Archaeological Trust |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
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Queen's University Belfast University of Southampton |
| Main interests | Archaeology of York, Viking Britain |
Peter Vincent Addyman, CBE FSA (born 12 July 1939) is a British archaeologist, who was Director of the York Archaeological Trust from 1972 to 2002. Addyman obtained a degree in archaeology at Cambridge University, after which he lectured at Queen's University Belfast and the University of Southampton, while also conducting excavations. In 1972 he was offered the directorship of the newly founded York Archaeological Trust, the creation of which he had proposed; along with excavation work in York, he oversaw the development of the Jorvik Viking Centre, the Archaeological Resource Centre, and Barley Hall. In 2000 he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Peter Vincent Addyman was born on 12 July 1939 to Erik Thomas Waterhouse Addyman and Evelyn Mary (née Fisher), and was brought up in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. As a child he assisted with excavations at the York Museum Gardens—"digging holes all around the Museum Gardens in a way we'd never be able to do now," as he described it, and sifting through spoil heaps to find artefacts. He attended Sedbergh School and Norwood College, at which point he and some schoolmates discovered at Underbank, near Sedbergh, a medieval village; they published a report of their excavation in the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal before graduating. After Norwood Addyman moved on to Peterhouse at Cambridge University, obtaining a degree in archaeology, and in 1960 directing excavations at Maxey. He took the tripos in 1961 at the same time as fellow scholar Martin Biddle.
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