Bryony Jean Coles, FBA, FSA (born 12 August 1946) is a prehistoric archaeologist and academic.
She is best known for her work studying the large area of land submerged beneath the North Sea around 8000 years ago and naming it Doggerland.
[5] Coles named Doggerland after Dogger Bank, a large sandbank in the southern North Sea.
Their work with the Somerset Levels Project resulted in the establishment of a new branch of archaeology focusing on wetlands and in 1998, they received the Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Award for the best archaeological project offering a major contribution to knowledge.
The bursary was created to help students who are travelling outside of their own country to study or work in prehistoric archaeology.