{{use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox academic | name = Frances Griffith | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FSA}} | occupation = Archaeologist | workplaces = {{unbulleted list |Devon County Council|Devon Archaeological Society|Royal Archaeological Institute}} | discipline = Archaeology | sub_discipline = Aerial archaeology }} '''Frances Griffith''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|FSA}} is a British archaeologist specialising in aerial archaeology. She worked as Devon County Archaeologist until her retirement in 2011.<ref>{{citation |title=Member news: Frances Griffith |url=https://www.archaeologists.net/sites/default/files/ta80_0.pdf |work=The Archaeologist |year=2011 |number=80 |page=56 |access-date=20 September 2024 |archive-date=5 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105060412/https://www.archaeologists.net/sites/default/files/ta80_0.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> She was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1997.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.sal.org.uk/our-fellows/directory/ms-frances-griffith/ |title=Ms Frances Griffith |website=Society of Antiquaries of London |accessdate=20 September 2024}}</ref>
From 1983, while working in Devon, Griffith undertook a programme of aerial reconnaissance across the county mapping archaeological sites. Described by Devon historian Simon Timms as Griffith's "seminal work", the aerial survey led to greater understanding of Devon's archaeological sites, including the prehistoric sites in the county beyond Dartmoor.<ref>{{citation |last=Timms |first=Simon |title='Hoping for Entire Completeness': The Pursuit of Devon's Past |journal=Transactions of the Devonshire Association |volume=132 |pages=130, 133–134, 145 |url=https://devonassoc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Timms-Hoping-for-Entire-Completeness-TDA-2000.pdf}} {{open access}}</ref> Among the sites identified by Griffith through aerial archaeology was a Roman military site on St Andrew's Hill in Cullompton.<ref>{{citation |last=Linford |first=Neil |title=St Andrew's Hill Cullompton, Devon. Report on geophysical survey, January 1992 |series=Ancient Monuments Laboratory Report |number=55/94 |publisher=Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/research/results/reports/4461/THEANIMALBONESFROMBEDDINGTON}}</ref> She has been a vice-president of the Royal Archaeological Institute and the Devon Archaeological Society.<ref>{{citation |title=Officers and Council for 2007–2008 |journal=The Archaeological Journal |year=2008 |volume=165 |page=574 |doi=10.1080/00665983.2008.11020788}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Who we are: Trustees & Executive Committee: The Executive Committee/Trustees 2024/25 |url=http://www.devonarchaeologicalsociety.org.uk/who-we-are-trustees-executive-committee/ |website=Devon Archaeological Society |accessdate=20 September 2024}}</ref>
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