| Vera Evison | |
| Birth Date: | 23 January 1918 |
| Birth Place: | Lewisham, London, UK |
| Occupation: | Archaeologist |
| Discipline: | Archaeology |
| Notable Students: | Sonia Chadwick Hawkes[1] |
Vera Ivy Evison (23 January 1918 – 18 March 2018) was a British archaeologist and academic, who specialed in Post-Roman Britain and early-Medieval England. She was Professor of Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London.[2] [3] [4]
Evison attended Lewisham Prendergast school until 1937, following this with a series of evening classes, in subject including archaeology, before studying BA English language and literature. Her studies were supported by working as a secretary for Kathleen Kenyon at the London University Institute of Archaeology. In 1947 she went to study archaeology in Stockholm under Nils Åberg. She also worked as a volunteer assistant at the British Museum, helping to unpack Anglo-Saxon objects (including grave goods from Sutton Hoo), once they were returned to the galleries after the Second World War.
She joined Birkbeck as a part-time lecturer in 1947, rising to professor in 1979 and retiring in 1983.
Evison also worked for the Ancient Monuments Inpsectorate (for the Ministry of Works) excavating sites prior to their destruction. Through this she brought six Anglo-Saxon cemeteries to publication: Buckland (Dover); Great Chesterford (Essex); Holborough Hill (Kent); two at Beckford (Herefordshire); and Alton (Hampshire).
She was elected as Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in May 1955.