Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford (28 October 1886–November 28, 1957) was an English archaeologist and a pioneer in the use of aerial photographs for deepening archaeological understanding of the landscape. October 28 is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 64 days remaining. ... 1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... November 28 is the 332nd day (333rd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ...

Born in Bombay the son of a civil servant, he was brought up in London and Hampshire by his maternal aunts due to the death of his mother in 1886 and his father in 1894. Crawford was educated at Marlborough College and then Keble College, Oxford where he began reading literae humaniores but changed to geography. Upon graduation in 1910 he worked as demonstrator in the Department of Geography at Oxford until 1911. In 1913 Crawford joined the Scoresby Routledge expedition to Easter Island but quarrelled with the principals and left before the expedition reached its destination. Instead he joined Henry Wellcome's excavations at Jebel Moya and Abu Gelli in the Sudan. On his return to England he excavated a long barrow on Wexcombe Down with E.A. Hooton. This article or section should be merged with Mumbai Mumbai (previously known as Bombay) is the worlds most populous conurbation, and is the sixth most populous agglomeration in the world. ... Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the most populous city in the European Union, with an estimated population on 1 January 2005 of 7,500,000 and a metropolitan area population of between 12 and 14 million. ... Hampshire (abbr. ... 1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... 1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Marlborough College is a British boarding school in the county of Wiltshire, founded in 1843 for the education of the sons of Church of England clergy, although it now accepts both boys and girls of all beliefs. ... College name Keble College Named after John Keble Established 1870 Sister College Selwyn College Warden Prof. ... Literae Humaniores is the name given to the study of Classics at Oxford and some other universities. ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... 1913 (MCMXIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Location of Easter Island. ... Henry Solomon Wellcome (born 1853 in Wisconsin, died 1936) was an American-British pharmaceutical entrepreneur. ... A long barrow is a prehistoric monument dating to the Neolithic period. ...

During the First World War he served first in the London Scottish, then in the Survey Division of the Third Army, and from 1917 as an observer with the Royal Flying Corps. His aircraft was shot down in 1918 and he was held prisoner at Holzminden until the end of the war. World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machine guns, and poison gas. ... The London Scottish Regiment is a unit of the British Army founded in 1793 as the Highland Armed Association of London and now part of the London Regiment. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) was the over-land air arm of the British military during most of World War I. Origin and Early History Formed by Royal Warrant on May 13, 1912, the RFC superseded the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Holzminden is a city in Lower Saxony with a population of 22,000 (2002). ...

Following a series of short-term jobs, in 1920 he was appointed the first Archaeology Officer of the Ordnance Survey, a post he held until his retirement in 1946. In 1927 he founded Antiquity; A Quarterly Review of Archaeology. 1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

During the Second World War he was responsible for saving much historical material in his garage in Nursling when the Ordnance Survey offices in Southampton were burnt out in an air-raid. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Nursling is a village in the English county of Hampshire, about six kilometres north-west of the city of Southampton. ... Civic Centre, Southampton Southampton is a city and major port situated on the south coast of England. ...

In 1951 he wrote: ""How much nonsense have not we of the present generation seen faded by our silence (...) Where now are (...) the Old Straight Trackers (...)." He did not live to see the revival of Ley Lines from the late 1960s. 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Ley lines are alignments of a number of places of geographical interest, such as ancient megaliths. ...

"Future archaeologists will perhaps excavate the ruined factories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when the radiation effects of Atom bombs have died away" he wrote in his 1953 book, Archaeology in the Field.

Books by O. G. S. Crawford

• The Long Barrows of the Cotswolds, 1925
• Wessex from the Air, 1928
• Topography of Roman Scotland North of the Antonine Wall, 1949
• Archaeology in the Field, 1953
• Said and Done: the autobiography of an archaeologist, 1955
• The Eye Goddess, 1957

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External Links

• Quote from O.G.S. Crawford, taken from his book 1953 "Archaeology in the Field", p.19, Phoenix House: London.