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Article: Tributes paid to celebrated archaeologist, aged 85.
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- Rugby Advertiser (Rugby, England)
- Article date:
- April 20, 2006
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TRIBUTES have been paid to a celebrated member of a Rugby group.
Jack Lucas, Chairman of the Rugby Archeological Society died last month aged 85.
Jack, who was born in 1921 in Earl Shilton, Leicestershire, was the Site Director for the excavations of the Roman settlement Tripontium, near Newton, since 1966 where he worked almost every weekend until December 2005.
When he left school he was apprenticed to a painter and decorator and later founded his own business, which operated until his retirement.
But his consuming interest was archaeology - particularly the Roman period - and in the early 1960s he joined a voluntary digging group at ...