• Leslie Alcock OBE FSA FSA Scot FRSE (24 April 1925 – 6 June 2006) was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, and one of the leading archaeologists...
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    More recent examination of the site was conducted in the 1960s by Leslie Alcock and since 1992 by the South Cadbury Environs Project. These have revealed...
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  • mathematics educator Leslie Alcock, British archaeologist Mary Alcock (née Cumberland, c. 1742 – 1798), British writer Sir Michael Alcock, British air chief...
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  • warfare and because not all such sites were actually located on hills. Leslie Alcock believed that the term "enclosed places" was more accurate, whilst J...
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    that were considered to possibly be ringworks. D. J. Cathcart King and Leslie Alcock proposed the following classification of ringworks based on their surviving...
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    archaeological dig in the 20th century. These excavations, led by archaeologist Leslie Alcock from 1966 to 1970, were titled "Cadbury-Camelot" and won much media...
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    of Bridei son of Maelchon, king of the northern Picts, led Professor Leslie Alcock to undertake excavations in 1983. Adomnán's Life of Columba records...
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  • been sent during either of his three consulships: 432, 437, or 446. Leslie Alcock has raised a tentative possibility of the "Agitius" to whom the gemitus...
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    16 May 2014. "Dunollie Museum, Castle & Grounds". dunollie.org. Alcock, Leslie; Alcock, Elizabeth A (1987). "Reconnaissance excavations on early historic...
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    between Scots, Irish and "north British" scholars and Anglo-Saxonists. Leslie Alcock, Kings and Warriors, could be taken as representing a "north British...
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    even if they died in the battle or were just defeated. As noted by Leslie Alcock, the reader assumes conflict between the two in the light of later tradition...
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    funds to rebuild the Abbey after it had been destroyed by a 1184 fire. Leslie Alcock in his Arthur's Britain postulated a theory according to which the grave...
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    2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014. George F. Dales, Jonathan M. Kenoyer, Leslie Alcock. Excavations at Mohenjo Daro, Pakistan: the pottery Evans, Lindsay (2000)...
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    (1966), p. 46. Simpson (1966), p. 50. Simpson (1966), pp. 52–53. Alcock, Leslie; Alcock, Elizabeth A (1992). "Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic...
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    reflected in archaeological or placename data (as pointed out earlier by Leslie Alcock). Campbell has also questioned the age and reliability of the medieval...
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  • site was subsequently excavated by a team of archaeologists led by Leslie Alcock from 1954 through to 1958. The hillfort, which was called the dinas...
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    London. ISBN 978-1-84529-158-7. Alcock, Leslie (1963). Dinas Powys. Cardiff: University of Wales Press Alcock, Leslie (1971). Arthur's Britain: History...
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  • Research Committee has also helped demonstrate, through a dig directed by Leslie Alcock in 1966–70, that Cadbury Castle, identified as Camelot by the 16th-century...
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    399–416. doi:10.4113/jom.2008.1040. ISSN 1744-5647. S2CID 73549487. Alcock, Leslie; Alcock, Elizabeth A. (1990). "Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic...
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    Susie I. Tucker (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1961), p. 13 n. 8. Leslie Alcock, Economy, Society, and Warfare among the Britons and Saxons (University...
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    separate the historical Arthur from the legendary Arthur. In 1971, Leslie Alcock claimed to "demonstrate that there is acceptable historical evidence...
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    until the late Saxon period. It was famously partially excavated by Leslie Alcock in the 1960s, when, amongst other things, an Arthurian period feasting...
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  • (2020) The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman (2024) Arthur's Britain by Leslie Alcock The Quest for Arthur's Britain by Geoffrey Ashe The Medieval Quest for...
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  • more recent translation as given in wikiquote: Historia Brittonum). Leslie Alcock was not the first to draw attention to the phrase though he may have...
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    some notable individuals born in England. George Adamson (1906–1906) Leslie Alcock (1925–2006) Mick Aston (1946–2013) Richard Atkinson (1920–1994) Edward...
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    This lack of archaeological evidence was previously noted by Professor Leslie Alcock. Campbell suggests that Argyll and Antrim formed a "maritime province"...
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    "Aberford Dykes". heritagegateway.org.uk. Retrieved 27 June 2023. Leslie Alcock (1954) Antiquity Volume 28, Issue 111 September 1954, pp. 147-154 "Aberford...
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    area were first done by Ramesh Chandra Majumdar in 1928 and later by Leslie Alcock in 1951. Pakistani archaeologist Dr F.A. Khan conducted extensive studies...
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  • in present-day South West England. Scholars such as Lloyd Laing and Leslie Alcock note the possibility that Gildas may have instead intended the territory...
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  • Albright (1891–1971) U.S.; Orientalist Leslie Alcock (1925–2006) English; Dark Age Britain Susan E. Alcock (born 19??) American; Roman provinces Miranda...
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