British School of Archæology at Rome

Abstract

IT is announced that Mr. C. A. Ralegh Radford has been appointed director of the British School of Archaeology at Rome in succession to Mr. Colin Hardie, recently appointed fellow and classical tutor of Magdalen College, Oxford. Mr. Radford is a former student of the British Schools of Archaeology at both Athens and Rome; and by his excavations on prehistoric Roman and medieval sites in Britain and abroad has taken a prominent part in recent advances in archseological studies. He was appointed Inspector of Ancient Monuments for Wales and Monmouthshire in 1929, and is also a member of the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments of that area. As general secretary with Prof. V. Gordon Childe of the First International Congress of Pre-, and Protohistoric Sciences he was jointly responsible with him for much of the success of the session held in London in 1932. Mr. Radford's training and experience have been such as should enable him to preserve the necessary balance between the studies of the School in prehistoric, protohistoric and classical archaeology, to which the special circumstances of Rome are perhaps less conducive than those of Athens.