Cressida Ridley

She participated in fieldwork in Wiltshire with a local archaeological group before enrolling for the Postgraduate Diploma in Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology in London in 1961. After this she won a scholarship to the British School in Athens^[2]. She also took part in the excavations on the Greek island of Saliagos, which were directed by John Evans and Colin Renfrew.^[1] She became fluent in Modern Greek and translated books on archaeology into English. She also became an expert on Greek Neolithic pottery. For the next thirty years she took part in excavations in Greece and Türkiye each summer.

In 1971, she co-directed a rescue excavation of a Neolithic site in Servia, Greece that was to be destroyed by the construction of a dam, along with Dr. Katerina Romiopoulou of the Greek Archaeological Service.^[1] The excavation continued for three summer seasons. Only the first volume of the exaction report was published by the time of her death.

• Ridley, Cressida; Wardle, K A (1979). Rescue excavations at Servia 1971-73 : a preliminary report. British school at Athens.
• Ridley, Cressida; Wardle, K A; Mould, Catharine A (2000). Servia 1: Anglo-Hellenic rescue excavations 1971-73. Supplementary volumes. London: British school at Athens. ISBN 978-0-904887-33-4.