[7] She then took up a lectureship at the University College of the South West of England at Exeter in 1947, and stayed on until her retirement in 1971.

[5] From the late 1940s, she undertook key excavations in south-west England, shedding new light on prehistoric occupation of Dartmoor, Iron Age hillforts in the region, and the Roman military presence in Cornwall.

[9] In the late 1960s, Fox played a key role in establishing Exeter Archaeological Field Unit.

Her book Roman Britain was a collaboration with the artist Alan Sorrell, whom she had met earlier at the British School at Rome.

[citation needed] In 1973, Fox became a visiting lecturer at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and from September 1974 to 1976 acting archaeologist at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, while the museum's archaeologist Janet Davidson studied as a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford.