Hal Dalwood obituary

My older brother, Hal Dalwood, who has died of cancer aged 58, was an archaeologist with a passion for communicating his subject to as many people as possible, be they other archaeologists, students, members of the public, or family members old and young.

Son of Peter, an antiquarian bookseller, and Mary, Hal was born in Bristol. Our family moved to Penzance, Cornwall, in 1969. Interested in archaeology from childhood, Hal studied at Southampton University, under Professor Colin Renfrew, in the 1970s. He spent a year in Sudan teaching English before joining the archaeological digging circuit, working on excavations around Britain, at Hazleton North, Beckford, Amersham, Great Missenden, St Albans and Shetland.