Gillian Varndell
Curator, Neolithic Collections
Neolithic of Britain and Europe
Department: Prehistory and
Europe
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8388
Email: gvarndell @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Gillian Varndell is responsible for the
British and European Neolithic collections, and jointly with the
Bronze Age curator for Bronze Age precious metal items submitted
under the Treasure Act. Her areas of interest include flint
procurement and deployment during the Later Neolithic, and the uses
of material culture during the Neolithic in general.
She has previously worked for Tyne and Wear
Museums.
Current British Museum projects
Neolithic pottery from Ringlemere, Kent for
final publication of excavations
Previous British Museum projects
Preparation of new prehistoric displays in
Room 51
External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Member of UISPP Commission on flint mining in pre- and
protohistoric times
Publications
Most recent publications
G. Varndell, ‘The Grooved Ware’; with S.
Needham ‘Catalogue of Early Bronze Age precious cups in North-West
Europe’, in S. Needham, K. Parfitt, and G. Varndell (eds.), The
Ringlemere Cup: precious cups and the beginning of the channel
Bronze Age, (British Museum Research Publication 163, London,
British Museum Press, 2006)
G. Varndell, ‘Seeing Things: A L Armstrong’s flint crust
engravings from Grimes Graves’, in P. Topping and M. Lynott (eds.)
The Cultural Landscape of Prehistoric Mines (Oxford,
Oxbow, 2005)
G. Varndell, ‘The Great Baddow Hoard and
Discoidal Knives: more questions than answers’, in A. Gibson, and
A. Sheridan (eds.) From Sickles to circles:
Britain and Ireland at the time
of Stonehenge (Stroud, Tempus, 2004)
G. Varndell, ‘An engraved chalk plaque from Hanging Cliff,
Kilham’, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 18 iv, (1999),
pp. 351-5
I. Longworth and G. Varndell, Excavations at Grimes
Graves, Norfolk, 1972-1976.
Fascicule 5. Mining in the deeper mines. (London, British
Museum Press, 1996)