Catherine Hills

She was appointed as a lecturer in Cambridge in 1977 in the Department of Archaeology.^[3] Previous to that she was a Field Officer for Norfolk Archaeological Unit.^[4] Hills was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1978.^[5] She was a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge.^[6]

Hills was closely associated with the excavation of the early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery at Spong Hill, North Elmham, Norfolk, where she directed excavations from 1974 until the completion of excavations in 1981.^[4][7] Hills' post-excavation analyses of this major site led to substantial contributions in the fields of early Anglo-Saxon archaeology, particularly regarding burial and migration,^[8] and more recently the chronology of the 5th century.^[7]

She presented the Channel 4 series The Blood of the British.^[9] She was Vice-President of the Society for Medieval Archaeology from 2017-2022.^[10]

• Hills, C. (1979). The archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England in the pagan period: A review. Anglo-Saxon England, 8, 297-329. doi:10.1017/S0263675100003112
• Hills C.M. (1986). The Blood of the British. London: George Philip
• Hills C.M. (2003). Origins of the English. London: Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd.
• Hills, C. (2007). History and archaeology: The state of play in early medieval Europe. Antiquity 81(311), 191-200. doi:10.1017/S0003598X0009493X
• Hills, C. (2011) Overview: Anglo-Saxon Identity. The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology. Oxford: OUP.
• Hills C. and Lucy S. (2013). Spong Hill Part IX. Chronology and Synthesis. Cambridge: McDonald Inst of Archaeological Research.