Osbert Crawford

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OGS Crawford, 1912.

Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford (born October 28, 1886 in Bombay ( India ), † November 28, 1957 ) was an English archaeologist and was one of the first to use aerial photographs for archaeological research purposes.

OGS Crawford was born in Bombay but grew up with relatives in London and Hampshire after his mother died in 1886 and father in 1894. He attended Marlborough College and then studied geography at Keble College , Oxford. After graduating, he first entered the civil service (Department of Geography) before he took part in excavations at Jebel Moya in Sudan in 1913 . After that, he was initially a member of the Mana expedition in the same year , but left it because of differences with the expedition leadership before reaching Easter Island. However, the then 27-year-old had to work off part of the cost of his participation on board, which meant additional resentment. His later statement that the expedition was an archaeological fiasco may also be due to this ...

After returning to England, he served in various army regiments during the First World War until he was assigned to the Royal Flying Corps as an aerial observer in 1917 . His plane was shot down in 1918 and Crawford was interned as a prisoner of war in Holzminden until the end of the war.

In 1920 he was appointed the first archaeological officer in the UK Ordnance Survey , the national mapping agency. In 1927 he founded the specialist magazine Antiquity. A Quarterly Review of Archeology . In 1947 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy .

Publications

  • The Long Barrows of the Cotswolds. 1925
  • Wessex from the Air. 1928
  • Air Survey and Archeology. 1928
  • Air-Photography for Archaeologists. 1929
  • Topography of Roman Scotland North of the Antonine Wall. 1949
  • The Fung kingdom of Sennar  : with a geographical account of the middle Nile region , Gloucester 1951
  • Archeology in the Field. 1953
  • Said and Done: the autobiography of an archaeologist. 1955
  • The Eye Goddess. Phoenix House, London 1957

literature

  • Kitty Hauser: Bloody Old Britain. OGS Crawford and the Archeology of Modern Life . 2008.

Remarks

  1. ↑ See Jo Anne van Tilburg: OGS Crawford and the Mana Expedition to the Easter Island (Rapa Nui), 1913-15 . In: The Journal of the Polynesian Society , Vol. 111, 2002, pp. 65-78 ( full text ).
  2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 17, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Crawford, Osbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crawford, Osbert Guy Stanhope (full name); Crawford, OGS
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Bombay ( India )
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1957