Mary Kitson Clark

Anna Mary Hawthorn Kitson Clark, (14 May 1905 – 1 February 2005), married name Mary Chitty, was an English archaeologist, curator, and independent scholar. She specialised in the archaeology of Romano-British Northern England but was also involved in excavations outside the United Kingdom and the Roman period. Her 1935 work, A Gazetteer of Roman Remains in East Yorkshire, "remains one of the starting points for any study of the Romans in the north of England". She was the youngest of three children born to Edwin Kitson Clark (1866–1943) and Georgina Kitson Clark (née Bidder); an elder brother was the historian George Kitson Clark. and according to her obituary in The Independent "remains one of the starting points for any study of the Romans in the north of England".

Personal life During her involvement in the 1929 excavations in Palestine, Kitson Clark met her future husband Derwas James Chitty (1901–1971); he was also an archaeologist and an Anglican priest.

Honours

On 13 January 1938, Kitson Clark was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA): at the time of her death she was the "last surviving fellow elected before the Second World War". In 1985, a conference was held in her honour by British Romanists; the proceedings of this conference were later published as Recent Research in Roman Yorkshire: studies in honour of Mary Kitson Clark (Mrs Derwas Chitty) (1988).

Selected works Kitson Clark, M. 1931. "Iron Age sites in the Vale of Pickering", Yorkshire Archaeological Journal. 30. 157–172.

Kitson Clark, M. 1933. "Some Invasions of Yorkshire", Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 31. 320–330. Kiston Clark, M. 1939. "Where were the Brigantes", Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 34. 80–87. Myers, J. N. L, Steer, K. A., and Chitty, A. H. M. 1962. "The Defences of Isurium Brigantum (Alborough)", Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 40, 1–79.