{{Short description|British archaeologist (born 1946)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = | name = Tania Dickinson | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FSA}} | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1946}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | discipline = Archaeology | sub_discipline = Early-medieval archaeology | movement = <!-- Should match the ideological movement or denomination (for religious), "school" of thought etc. (e.g. "Anglican", "Postmodernist", "Socialist" or "Green" etc. --> | religion = <!-- Religion should be supported with a citation from a reliable source --> | denomination = <!-- Religious denomination should be supported with a citation from a reliable source --> | education = | alma_mater = Institute of Archaeology | thesis_title = The Anglo-Saxon burial sites of the upper Thames region | workplaces = University College, Cardiff<br/>University of York | notable_works = | awards = | doctoral_advisor = Christopher Hawkes <br> Sonia Chadwick Hawkes<ref name=thesis>{{cite thesis |first=Tania |last=Dickinson |title=The Anglo-Saxon burial sites of the upper Thames region, and their bearing on the history of Wessex, circa AD 400-700 |year=1976 |type=PhD |page=xv |publisher=University of Oxford |url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:50bcba10-92ac-42c4-844f-e834a1365e27}} {{open access}}</ref> | thesis_year = 1976 | thesis_url = https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:50bcba10-92ac-42c4-844f-e834a1365e27 | doctoral_students = Patrick Ottaway<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Anglo-Scandinavian ironwork from 16-22 Coppergate, York : c.850-1100 A.D. |url=https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10826/ |date=1989 |language=English |first=Patrick |last=Ottaway |degree=PhD |publisher=University of York |page=37}}</ref> }} '''Tania Marguerite Dickinson''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA}} (born 1946) is a British archaeologist specialising in early-medieval Britain.<ref name='UoY'>{{cite web |url=https://www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/honorary-visiting/tania-dickinson/#profile-content |title=Tania Dickinson, Honorary Fellow |publisher=University of York |access-date=9 October 2019}}</ref> Dickinson undertook undergraduate study at St. Anne's College, Oxford and postgraduate study at the Institute of Archaeology (Oxford). Her doctoral thesis, titled ''The Anglo-Saxon burial sites of the upper Thames region, and their bearing on the history of Wessex, circa AD 400-700'', was supervised by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes and Christopher Hawkes (for the first year).<ref name="thesis" />
In 1973 she was appointed Lecturer in Archaeology at University College, Cardiff before moving to the University York as a lecturer in 1979. She remained at York until her retirement in 2011.<ref name="UoY" /> Dickinson was one of the lead researchers on, and chair of, the Staffordshire Hoard Research Project (2014-2015). The final report for the project was published in September 2019.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure |year=2019 |editor1=Chris Fern |editor2=Tania Dickinson |editor3=Leslie Webster|isbn=978-1527233508 |publisher=Society of Antiquaries of London}}</ref>
==Select publications== {{scholia|author}} * {{cite book | last1 = Dickinson | first1 = Tania M. | author1-link = Tania Dickinson | last2 = Speake | first2 = George | author2-link = George Speake | editor-last = Carver | editor-first = Martin | editor-link = Martin Carver | title = The Age of Sutton Hoo: The seventh century in north-western Europe | date = 1992 | publisher = The Boydell Press | location = Woodbridge | pages = 95–130 | chapter = The Seventh-Century Cremation Burial in Asthall Barrow, Oxfordshire: A Reassessment | isbn = 0-85115-330-5 | chapter-url = http://ls-tlss.ucl.ac.uk/course-materials/ARCL2018_73417.pdf | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190512220145/http://ls-tlss.ucl.ac.uk/course-materials/ARCL2018_73417.pdf | archive-date = 12 May 2019 | name-list-style = amp }} {{free access}} *1993. 'Early Saxon saucer brooches: a preliminary overview', in W. Filmer‑Sankey (ed.), ''Anglo‑Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History'' 6, 11–44. *2005. 'Symbols of protection: the significance of animal-ornamented shields in Early Anglo-Saxon England', ''Medieval Archaeology'' 49, 109–163. *2011. 'Overview: mortuary ritual', in H. Hamerow, D. Hinton and S. Crawford (eds.), ''The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology''. Oxford, Oxford University Press.pp221–237. *2014. 'Jewellery', in M. Lapidge, J. Blair, S. Keynes and D. Scragg (eds.), ''The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England'', Chichester, John Wiley & Sons. pp263–267. *2019. Editor, with Chris Fern and Leslie Webster. ''The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure''. London, Society of Antiquaries of London.
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==External links== *[https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/personDetails.xhtml?personId=8404 Tania Dickinson's publications as listed on the Archaeology Data Service]
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