Bernard Fagg

Bernard Evelyn Buller Fagg MBE, (8 December 1915 – 14 August 1987) was a British archaeologist and museum curator who undertook extensive work in Nigeria before and after the Second World War.

[1] He excavated the Rop rock shelter on the Jos Plateau in 1944, a site that contained both early stone-age implements and later artifacts, including pottery about 2000 years old.

[1] He undertook a controlled excavation of the site at Taruga, finding both terracotta figurines and iron slag with radiocarbon dates from about the fourth and third centuries BC.

'[4] Other leading authorities were equally enthused by the prospect of the new scheme, Jaquetta Hawkes writing that: "It may be that of late the distinguished and enthusiastic curator, Mr Bernard Fagg, has been, if not deliberately adding to the sense of congestion, at least not officiously striving to relieve it.

For there is now a glorious probability that a new Pitt Rivers Museum will arise in Oxford, a place where the marvellous collections could be properly spaced, well lit and in every way displayed in a manner worthy of their quality.