Norah Christina Jolliffe

Norah Christina Jolliffe (1900–1951) was an English archaeologist and academic specialising in Roman Britain. She lectured in Classics at the University of Reading, Royal Holloway, and Girton College, Cambridge.

Life Jolliffe was born in 1900 in Abingdon to Arthur Jolliffe, who was a fellow and tutor of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College, she received a Higgins scholarship to study Classics at Girton College, Cambridge, where she received a first-class pass in 1918. She received a University Diploma in Archaeology in 1922. She then studied as a Gilchrist scholar at the British School in Rome, where she co-authored a paper on Roman stuccoes with the School’s Assistant Director, Eugénie Sellers Strong. 'Dea Brigantia', The Archaeological Journal 98 (1941), 36–61