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Article: A "divine" purpose? The legacy of T. C. Lethbridge. (Topics, Notes And Comments).
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- April 1, 2003
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From them one learns to recognise the great gulf which exists between those who really use their brains to solve important questions and those who think that anything can be answered if you dig a big enough hole (Acknowledgements in T.C. Lethbridge, 1957).
Introduction
The year 2001 marks the one-hundredth year since the birth of one of the most compelling, if not controversial, figures in the history of twentieth-century British Archaeology. Thomas "Tom" Lethbridge (1901-71) was at one time an honorary keeper of Anglo-Saxon antiquities at the University of Cambridge, author of a number of books on the British Dark Ages and maritime archaeology, a ...