Ralegh Radford

Courtenay Arthur Ralegh Radford (7 November 1900 in Hillingdon, Middlesex – 27 January 1999 in Uffculme, Devon) was an English archaeologist and historian who pioneered the exploration of the Dark Ages of Britain and popularised his findings in many official guides and surveys for the Office of Works. His scholarly work appeared in articles in the major British journals, such as Medieval Archaeology or the Proceedings of the British Academy and in the various Transactions of archaeological societies.

Courtenay Arthur Ralegh Radford was born on 8 November 1900 at the Cedar House, Hillingdon, the only son of Arthur Lock Radford, FSA (1862–1925), an antiquary, and his second wife, Ada Minnie Hemyng Bruton, daughter of John Bruton, of Clifton. Radford's sister, Evelyn Hilda Mary, married Sir Francis D'Arcy Cooper, 1st Baronet. Radford received his M.A. from Exeter College, Oxford, where he read modern history. He was involved with the excavations at Whitby Abbey, North Riding of Yorkshire, in the early 1920s. In 1929 he was appointed Inspector of Ancient Monuments for his chosen territory, Wales and Monmouthshire, entrusted with preliminary surveys of numerous sites.

In the 1930s he excavated the site of The Hurlers, a group of three stone circles in the civil parish of St Cleer, Cornwall. He partly restored the two northern circles by re-erecting some stones and placing marker stones in the positions of those missing. In 1935 he excavated the Roman villa site at Ditchley, Oxfordshire.

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