RESEARCH LABORATORY

In consequence of this research, Lord Cherwell consulted with Christopher Hawkes, the Professor of European Archaeology, and at a dinner at Christ Church, the two of them plus Teddy Hall plotted to create the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, the Research Laboratory finally being established in 1955 with Teddy Hall, who was now Dr Hall, as its first Director. As far as its administration was concerned, the Research Laboratory did not come under either Physics or Archaeology, but was regulated by a committee of the General Board, and this arrangement continued until just before Teddy Hall's (now Professor Hall) retirement in 1989 when the Research Laboratory became affiliated to the Committee for Archaeology.

Also known as: Research Laboratory for Archaeology

Primary location: Oxford United Kingdom