Albert Leslie ('Leslie') Armstrong

Albert Leslie ('Leslie') Armstrong MC FSI FSA(Scot)
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Born	1878
Died	1958
Residence	14 Swaledale Road, Sheffield 27 Victoria Road, Stockton Heath, Warrington [1931] Richmond Lodge, Bowden, Cheshire [1949] Pommeru Farm, S. Rhodesia
Occupation	civil service archaeologist
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1958 deceased elected_AI 1922.02.14 societies Prehistoric Society of East Anglia Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

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House Notes

1922.01.17 proposed by H.J.E. Peake, seconded by W.H.R. Rivers
1958.03.17 deceased [A31]
1959.01.15 death noted

Notes From Elsewhere

Excavated at sites including Graig Lwyd, Grimes Graves, and cave sites in Derbyshire. Also excavated at sites in Southern Africa including Bambata and Barkly west, among others. Items from Graig Lwyd bequeathed to the Museum by S Hazzledine Warren (q.v.) in 1958. Grimes Graves finds given to the Museum by his trustees in 1959.

Armstrong, reportedly a civil servant in a highly responsible position, spent his annual leave in archaeological digging, mostly in Derbyshire and Suffolk. He was involved in controversy when he claimed [Petch]

Royal Engineers during WWI

Publications

External Publications

House Publications

Excavations at Mother Grundy's Parlour, Cresswell Crags, Derbs 1925
Rhodesian archaeological expedition 1929
Excavations in Bambata Cave and researches on prehistoric sites in S. Rhodesia 1931
The antiquity of man as demonstrated by stone implements of the ancient Zambesi Gravels [with Rev. N. Jones] 1936

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Other Material

BM; PRM field collector; National archives: war record