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 NOTED Wiltshire archaeologist Maud Cunnington would have written many of her learned papers from her desk, which can now be found in the Wiltshire Heritage Museum.A ghost said to be Maud has been seen where her desk now sits in the Devizes museum. Grant aid from the Primrose Trust allowed the museum to buy the late Victorian desk at auction from Henry Aldridge and Son in the town's Bath Road for about £700. Maud was part of a dynasty of Cunningtons who carried out important excavations at Woodhenge, All Cannings Cross, Avebury and many other prehistoric sites in Wiltshire. 
Her work was a major contribution to the knowledge of the earliest history of the county and she was awarded the CBE in 1948 for it.She remains the only woman ever elected chairman of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, which owns and runs the Heritage museum. Maud was married to Benjamin Howard Cunnington and died in 1951 aged 82. |
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