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Francesca Radcliffe was born in Venice, Italy and since 1964 has lived in England. Her interest in Archaeology eventually led her to archaeological photography from the air, after reading, and being inspired by, D. N. Riley’s book Air Photography and Archaeology. At approximately the same time she met Giles Romanes, a retired eye surgeon who offered to take her for photographic sorties in his Piper Vagabond, weather and many commitments permitting. Her collection of aerial photographs has grown to more than 9500 colour slides and prints. The photographs were taken during a period of fourteen years over West and North Dorset, the County where she spends most of her time. Although from the very beginning her photography has concentrated almost exclusively on archaeological features, like earth-works, crop-marks or soil-marks she has also recorded major buildings, towns, villages, churches, geological, geographical and industrial features, creating a record of the landscape of North and West Dorset in the 1990s. Eventually her collection will be housed in the Dorset County Museum in Dorchester. Francesca Radcliffe is at present endeavouring to assemble material relating to the life and work of John S P Bradford, MA, FAS, who wrote the book "Ancient Landscapes" in 1957 and was lecturer at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford in the early 1950s. He also held courses on Air Photography and Archaeology in Oxford. If you have any information please contact her at the email address below. |
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