The Society consists of over 3,000 elected Fellows who are distinguished in their fields of archaeology, architectural or art history, or other antiquarian subject matters across the academic, charitable, heritage and private sectors.
In addition, we are privileged to acknowledge the following people for their unwavering support and contributions to the Society:
- Royal Patrons and Royal Fellows
- Honorary Fellows of the Society
- Society Gold Medallists
- Society Silver Medallists
- Society Medallists
- Society Frend Medallists
Royal Patron
- HRH The Duke of Gloucester
Honorary Fellows of the Society
2017: Simon Russell Beale (UK), actor, broadcaster and musical historian
2017: Emeritus Prof Joscelyn Godwin (USA), musician also with interests in esotericism; generous donor to Kelmscott Manor
2015: Prof Brian Fagan (USA), Prehistorian – N.American archaeology, ancient climate change and human societies
2013: Prof Zhan Guo (China), Cultural heritage management and protection in China
2013: Prof Leonardo López Luján (Mexico), Archaeologist and historian; Director of Templo Mayor, Mexico
2013: Emeritus Professor Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (Mexico), Archaeologist; former Director of Templo Mayor, Mexico; Aztec history and archaeology
2010: Prof Katragadda Paddayya (India), Prehistorian – earliest prehistory of the Indian sub-continent
2010: Prof Christopher Stringer (UK), Palaeontologist; ‘Out of Africa’ model for modern human origins
2010: Emeritus Prof Jack Golson (Australia), Prehistorian – Pacific islands
2009: Prof Kristian Kristiansen (Sweden), Archaeologist, prehistorian, esp. Bronze Age; archaeological theory
2009: Prof Dr Paolo Biagi (Italy), Prehistoric archaeology – Italy, Sardinia, Pakistan, Kuwait
2007: Sir David Attenborough (UK), Naturalist and broadcaster
2007: Prof Dr Johann Michael Fritz (Germany), Art historian; gold & silver expert, Middle Ages to modern period
2007: Prof Arturo Carlo Ottaviano Quintavalle (Italy), Art historian, medieval to 20th cent.
2005: Prof Vésteinn Ólason (Iceland), Expert on Icelandic sagas and manuscripts
2001: Prof Manolis Korres (Greece), Architect; former co-ordinator of Parthenon restoration
1999: Prof Siegmar Freiherr Von Schnurbein (Germany), Roman archaeologist; former Director of Römisch-Germanische Kommission, Frankfurt
1998: Prof François Baratte (France) Prof. of Archaeology of Late Antiquity, Sorbonne – N. Africa, Parthia
1997: Prof Dimitri Shvidkovsky (Russia), Architectural historian: European influence on Russian architecture
1996:Prof Mohammed Rafique Mughal (USA), Archaeologist; heritage management in N. Pakistan
1996: Dr Jean Clottes (France), Prehistorian; rock art of the Pyrenees and W. Africa
1993: Prof Helmut Kyrieleis (Germany), Classical archaeologist; former director of DAI, Athens
1993: Mr Abdelmajebid Ennabli, (Tunisia) Archaeologist; former director of excavations at Carthage
1990: Dr George Dontas (Greece), Archaeologist; former Director of the Acropolis Museum
1988: Prof Hansgerd Hellenkemper (Germany), Roman archaeologist; former Director of Cologne Museum
1985: Prof Vadim Michajlovic Masson (Russia), Archaeologist – Central Asia from Neolithic to late antique
1974: Prof Dr Willem Albertus Van Es (Netherlands), Archaeologist, prehistory & classical; Roman Netherlands
Society Gold Medallists
The Society’s Gold Medal is awarded for distinguished services to archaeology. Recipients include:
2021: Andrew Colin Renfrew
2014: Beatrice de Cardi
2008: Prof Rosemary Cramp
2006: Prof Barry Cunliffe
2004: Joyce Reynolds
2002: Prof John Coles
2000: Prof Gordon Willey
1995: Prof Philip Grierson
1995: Claude Blair
1995: Sir David Mackenzie Wilson
1990: Prof Charles Thurstan Shaw
1989: Prof Sheppard Sunderland Frere (resigned November 1994)
1988: Dr Arnold Joseph Taylor
1986: Prof George Zarnecki
1985: Prof Desmond Clark
1983: Emeritus Prof Stuart Piggott
1981: Prof Charles Francis Christopher Hawkes
1978: Prof John Grahame Douglas Clark
1977: Dr Donald Benjamin Harden
1976: Prof Sir John Nowell Linton Myres
1973: Dame Joan Evans
1972: Dr Courtenay Arthur Ralegh Radford
1970: Prof Emerita Sirarpie Der Nersessian
1968: Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod
1966: Prof Carl William Blegen
1964: Dr H J Plenderleith
1962: Sir Leonard Woolley
1958: Dr Claude F A Schaeffer
1956: Prof Vere Gordon Childe
1954: Dr Johannes Brondsted
1952: Sir Cyril Fox
1950: Dr Albert Egges van Giffen
1948: Sir Alfred Clapham
1946: Edward Thurlow Leeds
1944: Sir Mortimer Wheeler
1943: Prof Sir Ellis Hovell Minns
1942: Prof Sir John Nowell Linton Myres
1940: Dr Aarne Tallgren
1939: Dr Haakon Shetelig
1938: Sir Charles Peers
1937: L’Abbe Henri Breuil
1935: Sir Aurel Stein
1934: Sir Arthur Evans
Society Silver Medallists (no longer awarded)
1983: John Henry Hopkins
Society Medallists
The Society Medal was instituted in 1996 to mark outstanding service to the Society or the aims of the Society.
2019: Peter Cormack
2019: Martin Levy
2018: Edward Harris
2017: Adrian Babbidge
2015: Lesley Favager
2015: Thomas Woodcock
2014: Merlin Waterson
2014: Pamela Tudor-Craig
2014: John Maddison
2011: Stephen Cosh
2011: David Neal
2010: Alan Aberg
2010: Philip Lankester
2008: Bernard Nurse
2007: Alan and Janet Frost
2006: Peter Locke
2005: Prof David Morgan Evans
2004: Helen Webb
2003: John Gilbert Hurst
2003: Beatrice de Cardi
2002: Martin Williams
2002: Lesley Lewis
2001: Prof Norman Hammond
2001: Dr Derek Renn
1999: Howell Harris Hughes
1998: Pat Chapman
1998: Don Chapman
1997: Dennis Turner
1996: Eva Rhys
1996: John Cherry
1996: John Goodall
Society Frend Medallists (no longer awarded)
The Frend Medal, established in 1982 through the generosity of the Rev Prof William Frend, was awarded annually (until 2006) in recognition of contributions to the study of archaeological and material remains of the early Christian Church.
2006: Liliane Ennablie
2005: David Phillipson
2004: Bogdan Zurawski
2003: Philip Arthur Rahtz
2002: Nancy Gauthier
2001: Michael John Jones
2000: Gunter Fehring
1999: Marlia Mundell Mango
1998: Stephen John Hill
1997: Yoram Tsafrir
1996: Charles Bonnet
1995: Peter Megaw
1994: Wendy Davis
1993: Hansgerd Hellenkemper
1992: Richard Morris
1991: Noel Duval
1990: Michael Ryan
1989: Richard Krautheimer
1988: Warwick Rodwell
1987: Martin Harrison
1986: Martin Biddle
1986: Birthe Kjolbye-Biddle
1985: Kenneth Painter
1984: Jocelyn Toynbee
1983: Rosemary Cramp
1982: Harold Taylor
1982: Charles Thomas
Remembering deceased Honorary Fellows
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- Dr Robert McCormick Adams (USA), Anthropologist & archaeologist – Middle East & Mexico
- Prof Pierre Amiet (France), Assyriologist; conservateur en chef honoraire, Louvre
- Prof Emeritus Dr Charalambos Bouras (Greece), Classical archaeologist; former director of Acropolis Restoration Service; Byzantine architecture
- Dr H C Otto Braasch (Germany), Aerial archaeologist – Europe – Neolithic -20th cent., esp. Roman
- Prof Dr Elisabeth Ettlinger (Switzerland), Archaeologist – Roman provinces, esp. Switzerland
- Prof Christian Goudineau (France), Archaeologist and ancient historian, esp. Roman Gaul
- Dr Vassos Karageorghis (Cyprus), Archaeologist – leading scholar of ancient Cyprus
- Prof Romauld Schild (Poland), Archaeologist; prehistory of Egypt & E. Africa
- Dr Zdenek Smetanka (Czech Republic), Medieval archaeologist; Bohemia and Spain