Tania Marguerite Dickinson (born 1946) is a British archaeologist specialising in early-medieval Britain. Dickinson undertook undergraduate study at St. Anne's College, Oxford and postgraduate study at the

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. 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). In 1973 she was appointed Lecturer in Archaeology at

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before moving to the University York as a lecturer in 1979. She remained at York until her retirement in 2011. 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.

Select publications

* *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''. Oxofrd, 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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Tania Dickinson's publications as listed on the Archaeology Data Service
British women archaeologists Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London 21st-century British archaeologists Academics of the University of York Alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford Medieval archaeologists 1946 births Living people {{Archaeologist-stub