Catherine Hills

Catherine Mary Hills, is a British archaeologist and academic, who is a leading expert in Anglo-Saxon material culture. She is a senior research fellow at the McDonald Institute for [Archaeological Research], University of Cambridge.

Education

In the 1960s, Hill excavated with Philip Rahtz at Beckery chapel, Glastonbury.

She was appointed as a lecturer in Cambridge in 1977 in the Department of Archaeology. Previous to that she was a Field Officer for Norfolk Archaeological Unit. Hills was elected as a Fellow of the Society of [Antiquaries of London|Society of Antiquaries] in 1978. She was a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge.
Hills was closely associated with the excavation of the early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery at Spong Hill, North Elmham, Norfolk, where she directed excavations from 1974 until the completion of excavations in 1981. Hills' post-excavation analyses of this major site led to substantial contributions in the fields of early Anglo-Saxon archaeology, particularly regarding burial and migration, and more recently the chronology of the 5th century.
She presented the Channel 4 series The Blood of the British. She was Vice-President of the Society for Medieval Archaeology from 2017-2022.

Hills, C.. The archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England in the pagan period: A review. Anglo-Saxon England, ''8, 297-329.
Hills C.M.. The Blood of the British. London: George Philip
Hills C.M.. Origins of the English. London: Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd.
Hills, C.. History and archaeology: The state of play in early medieval Europe. Antiquity 81, 191-200.
Hills, C. Overview: Anglo-Saxon Identity. The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology. Oxford: OUP.
Hills C. and Lucy S.. Spong Hill Part IX. Chronology and Synthesis''. Cambridge: McDonald Inst of Archaeological Research.