Percival Turnbull | |
Birth Date: | 1953 |
Birth Place: | Coxhoe, County Durham, England |
Death Date: | (aged 62) |
Death Place: | Mickleton, County Durham, England |
Citizenship: | United Kingdom |
Fields: | Archaeology |
Percival David Turnbull (1953 - 20 August 2016) was a British archaeologist.[1] [2]
Percival was born in Coxhoe, County Durham, in 1953. His father was a miner. He studied at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London, graduating in 1975.
Turnbull worked for Durham University and subsequently Durham, North Yorkshire and Cumbria county councils. He founded Brigantia Archaeological Practice in 1995 in Barnard Castle. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in May 1990.[3] In 1983 Turnbull and Colin Haselgrove set up the Stanwick Research Project at the Department of Archaeology, Durham University.
He was a founder member of the Tees River Trust.