| LC control no. | n 50018329 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Guido, Margaret |
| Variant(s) | Guido, Cecily Margaret, 1912-1994 Guido, Peggy, 1912-1994 Piggott, C. M., 1912-1994 Piggott, Cecily Margaret, 1912-1994 Piggott, Peggy, 1912-1994 Preston, C. M., 1912-1994 Preston, Cecily Margaret, 1912-1994 |
| See also | Chief executive of: Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/u/P60865 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000368585984 14894746 Q20988956 E39PBJhX9YMkGvHc93WMF6pXVC |
| Biography/History note | Margaret "Peggy" Guido (1912-1994) was an English archaeologist, prehistorian, and finds specialist. She was a highly skilled excavator and prolific researcher, with an archaeological career spanning 60 years. She produced as many as fifty works for British prehistory, advancing the fields in the Bronze Age studies and glass beads from Prehistoric to Anglo-Saxon times. She also authored four guidebooks on Italian archaeology. |
| Associated country | England Great Britain |
| Birth date | 1912-08-05 |
| Death date | 1994-08-03 |
| Place of birth | Beckenham (London, England) |
| Place of death | Bath (England) |
| Field of activity | Archaeology Guidebooks |
| Profession or occupation | Archaeologists |
| Found in | Her Syracuse, 1961, c1958. The glass beads of Anglo-Saxon England ... 1999: CIP title page (Margaret Guido) data sheet (born Sept. 8, 1912; died Aug. 8, 1994) Excavations at Dorchester, Oxon., 1951: title page (C.M. Piggott) Sicily before the Greeks, 1958: title page verso (C.M. Preston) Wikipedia, October 21, 2024 (Peggy Guido; Cecily Margaret Guido, FSA, FSA Scot (née Preston; 5 August 1912 - 8 September 1994), also known as Peggy Piggott, was an English archaeologist, prehistorian, and finds specialist; born Cecily Margaret Preston in Beckenham, Kent; died Bath, Somerset, England; studied archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology in London, where she was awarded a postgraduate diploma in Western European Prehistory; after the annulment of her first marriage to Stuart Piggott she moved to Sicily and briefly reverted to her maiden name of Preston, which she used in the translation she and her second husband Luigi Guido made of Bernabo Brea's Sicily before the Greeks (1957); in the 1960s and 1970s she produced four guidebooks on Italian archaeology: on Sardinia (1963), Syracuse (1965), Sicily (1967), and on southern Italy as a whole (1972); held shared tenure as President of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society from 1987 until her death in 1994) |
| Associated language | eng |
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