# Kay Hartley
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{{Short description|English archaeologist (1929–2025)}}
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{{Infobox academic
| name = Kay Hartley
| post-nominals = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA|}}
| birth_name = Katharine Freda Kaine
| birth_date = {{birth date|1929|8|2|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [Burnley](/source/Burnley), England
| death_date = {{death date and age|2025|5|22|1929|8|2|df=yes}}
| death_place = [Leeds](/source/Leeds), England
| occupation = [Archaeologist](/source/Archaeologist)
| education = {{ubl|[University of London](/source/University_of_London)|[University of Leicester](/source/University_of_Leicester)}}
| discipline = Archaeology
| sub_discipline = [Roman pottery](/source/Roman_pottery)
| spouse = {{marriage|[Brian Hartley](/source/Brian_Hartley_(archaeologist))|1955|1973|reason=divorce}}
}}
'''Kay Hartley''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA|}} (born '''Katharine Freda Kaine'''; 2 August 1929 – 22 May 2025) was an English archaeologist and specialist in the study of Romano-British [mortaria](/source/Mortarium).
== Early life ==
Katharine Freda Kaine was born in 1929 in [Burnley](/source/Burnley) in Lancashire, the second of four children.[{{Cite journal |last=Dannell |first=G B |date=2005 |title=K F Hartley:- a biographical note |url=https://romanpotterystudy.org.uk/jrps/vol12/ |journal=Journal of Roman Pottery Studies |volume=12 |pages=1}}] She was brought up in Gisburn Toll Bar, then in the county of [Yorkshire](/source/Yorkshire), by an aunt and uncle. She won a scholarship to Burnley Girls' High School in 1939. Then she went to [Burnley Municipal College](/source/Burnley_College) where she studied for an external degree of [London University](/source/University_of_London) and graduated in 1950 with an honours degree in history.
She then went to [Leicester University College](/source/University_of_Leicester) to study for a Diploma in Education and then taught for several years. Hartley had an interest in archaeology from childhood, but had no way of furthering her interest until she moved to [Saddleworth](/source/Saddleworth) after taking her degree, where the [Workers' Educational Association](/source/Workers'_Educational_Association) began a series of lectures on archaeology in the nearby village of Uppermill. She also attended the excavation at [Great Casterton](/source/Great_Casterton) organised by [Maurice Barley](/source/M._W._Barley). It was there she met [Brian Hartley](/source/Brian_Hartley_(archaeologist)), whom she married in 1955.[{{Cite journal |last=Frere |first=Sheppard |date=2005 |title=Kay Hartley: an appreciation |url=https://romanpotterystudy.org.uk/jrps/vol12/ |journal=Journal of Roman Pottery Studies |volume=12 |pages=11–12}}]
== Work on mortaria ==
Professor [Eric Birley](/source/Eric_Birley) encouraged her study of stamps on [amphora](/source/amphora) and [mortaria](/source/Mortarium), and she planned to study for a PhD on mortaria stamps. She abandoned this plan because funding was withdrawn when she married,[{{Cite web |last=Lyons |first=Alice |date=5 June 2025 |title=Dr Kay Hartley |url=https://romanpotterystudy.org.uk/2025/06/05/dr-kay-hartley/ |access-date=6 September 2025 |website=Study Group for Roman Pottery}}] but she planned to publish all her notes and drawings on stamped mortaria. This archive was later digitised and made available online.[{{Cite web |last1=F. Hartley |first1=Kay |last2=Boutwood |first2=Yvonne |last3=Leary |first3=Ruth |title=Kay Hartley Mortarium Archive Project |url=https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/1004227/ |access-date=31 August 2025 |website=Archaeology Data Service |date=2025 |doi=10.5284/1090785}}]
Hartley contributed specialist reports on mortaria to many publications of archaeological sites, such as [Verulamium](/source/Verulamium) ([St Albans](/source/St_Albans)), [Richborough](/source/Richborough), and many sites in the [Nene Valley](/source/Nene_Valley) and in Yorkshire.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Kay Hartley conducted excavations at [Mancetter](/source/Mancetter) and at [Hartshill](/source/Hartshill) in Warwickshire,[{{Cite journal |last=Baddeley |first=Colin |date=2005 |title=Mancetter memories |url=https://romanpotterystudy.org.uk/jrps/vol12/ |journal=Journal of Roman Pottery Studies |volume=12 |pages=12}}] a major production site of mortaria. She continued to work on mortaria reports until the end of her life.[{{Cite web |date=8 December 2023 |title=Roman pottery expert honoured by Newcastle University |url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2023/12/kayhartley/ |access-date=31 August 2025 |website=[Newcastle University](/source/Newcastle_University) |language=en}}] A [Festschrift](/source/Festschrift) in her honour was published by the Study Group for Roman Pottery in 2005.[{{Cite journal |date=2005 |title=Dedication |url=https://romanpotterystudy.org.uk/jrps/vol12/ |journal=Journal of Roman Pottery Studies |volume=12 |pages=ix}}] In 1972, she was elected as a Fellow of the [Society of Antiquaries of London](/source/Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London).[{{Cite web |title=Mrs Katharine Hartley FSA |url=https://www.sal.org.uk/fellows/mrs-katharine-hartley/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250629041554/https://www.sal.org.uk/fellows/mrs-katharine-hartley/ |archive-date=29 June 2025 |access-date=6 September 2025 |website=[Society of Antiquaries of London](/source/Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London)}}]
== Personal life ==
Kaine married Brian Hartley in 1955.[{{Cite news |date=18 May 2005 |title=Brian Hartley |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/brian-hartley-bz3np28t0vt |access-date=6 September 2025 |work=[The Times](/source/The_Times)}}] Hartley died on 22 May 2025 in [Leeds](/source/Leeds).