Penelope Walton Rogers FSA (1950 – 10 November 2023) was a British archaeologist and expert in archaeological textiles.^[1]

Biography

Walton Rogers was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1950. Instead of attending Girton College at age 17 she went to work as a field archaeologist before working as a Finds Officer for York Minster Archaeologists. Walton Rogers then set up an independent finds research practice in the 1980s, which eventually became the Anglo Saxon Laboratory.^[2]

On 10 October 1996, Walton Rogers was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.^[3] She was also a Visiting Fellow at the University of York.

Walton Rogers died on 10 November 2023, at the age of 73.^[1][4]

Select bibliography

• Walton Rogers, P. 1997. Textile Production at 16-22 Coppergate (The Archaeology of York 17/11). York: CBA/York Archaeological Trust.
• Walton Rogers, P. 2007. Cloth and Clothing in Early Anglo-Saxon England (AD 450-700) (CBA Research Report 145). York: CBA.
• Walton Rogers, P. 2013. "Tyttel’s Halh: The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Tittleshall, Norfolk", East Anglian Archaeology 150.
• Walton Rogers, P. 2020. "Chapter 5. Textile networks in Viking-Age towns of Britain and Ireland", in SP Ashby and SM Sindbæk (eds), Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns, 83–122. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow.