Jeffrey Radley
{{short description|British archaeologist}}
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| birth_date = 13 October 1935England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007
| birth_place = Rotherham, Yorkshire
| death_date =22 July 1970 (aged 34)
| death_place =Anglian Tower, York
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Jeffrey Radley {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA}} (13 October 1935 – 22 July 1970) was a British archaeologist and poet.
Career
Radley was an archaeologist, particularly interested in Prehistoric archaeology.{{ref|Note A|a}} He was also a poet, having a collection of poems published posthumously titled Scarred Temple....{{cite book |title=Scarred temple ... : verses. (By and for Jeffrey Radley (1935-1970): with a bibliography of his works 1959-1972) |author=Radley, J. |editor=Simms, C. |date=1972 |publisher=York Poetry |isbn=0903637057}}
=Death=
Radley was killed on 22 July 1970 during excavations on the Anglian Tower in York. He had reportedly climbed down into the trench during a lunch break when it collapsed on top of him.{{cite news |url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/8239436.yorks-bid-for-un-world-heritage-status/ |title=York's bid for UN World Heritage status |author1=Lewis, Stephen |date=25 June 2010 |work=York Press |accessdate=30 September 2019}} He had been directing the excavations commissioned by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England.{{cite book |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/york/vol2/xv-xvii |title=An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 2, the Defences. |publisher=Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England |date=1972 |pages=xv-xvii}}
A plaque on the site, unveiled by Lord Salisbury, commemorates his death:
:This plaque is erected to the memory of Jeffrey Radley M.A. F.S.A. who carried out the excavation of the tower and was tragically killed in a subsequent accident at the site on July 22nd 1970.{{cite journal |author1=Ramm, Herman |date=1971 |title=The Anglian Tower |journal=Yorkshire Philosophical Society, Annual Report for the Year 1971 |page=23}}{{cite web |url=http://www.jorvik.co.uk/anglian-tower/ |title=Jorvik: An Illustrated Guide to York |publisher=Jorvik |date=2013 |accessdate=29 October 2013}}
Notes
:a.{{note|Note A}} For a full list of Radley's archaeological publications on the ADS, see [https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/personDetails.xhtml?personId=28143 here].
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Category:Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Category:Accidental deaths in England
Category:20th-century British archaeologists
Category:People of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England