Sandars, N. K. (Nancy K.)

found: Telegraph WWW site, viewed December 18, 2015(Nancy Sandars; Nancy Katharine Sandars was born on June 29 1914 at the Manor House, Little Tew, Oxfordshire; died November 20 2015, aged 101; archaeologist)

found: Evening primroses, 2017:title page (Nancy Sandars) page 5 (archaeologist and poet; lived all her life in Little Tew; she became interested in archaeology before the war; she served in the Motor Transport Corps as a dispatch rider but in 1943 joined the WRNS, and worked in intelligence, first at Bletchley Park and then in a series of coastal postings in enemy reconnaissance; after the war she studied at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London; B.Litt. Degree, St Hugh's College, Oxford; published her first book Bronze age cultures in France in 1957; she travelled widely in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, with studentships from Oxford University and the University of Liverpool; she was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in London, and a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute; she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984; she was a prolific poet and playwright from her early 20s but did not publish a collection until the age of 87; she died at Little Tew on November 20, 2015)