28th October 2005, 01:34 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Sith
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Tim
Quote:quote:Originally posted by troll
I know of no fatalities in British archaeology yet.
I'm sure there was somebody killed in a trench collapse in Colchester(?) and another squished flat by grader on the Channel tunnel project both in the 90's.
Little Tim
As far as I am aware, only one archaeologist has been killed on an excavation in Britain. In July 1970, Jeffrey Radley was killed in York when a trench in which he had been working collapsed. There is a plaque dedicated to him on the Anglian tower in the Museum Gardens.
http://www.yorkstories.co.uk/york_walks-..._590px.jpg
As for the other British incidents being bandied about, I assume that they are either urban myths or the deaths of other construction site workers. Considering the thread on everyone in archaeology being related or known to one another, if someone had died we'd [u]all</u> know about it.
I seem to remember a death in the early 90s - a trench collapse. It was the director. He was british but I'm not sure it happened in the UK - maybe France.