Dorothy Charlesworth FSA (1927–1981) was a Roman archaeologist and glass specialist who served as Inspector of Ancient Monuments.

[2][3] She took an interest in the study of ancient glass with the encouragement of Donald Benjamin Harden, for whom she then worked at Oxford and London.

She first held a Leverhulme research fellow at the Museum of London,[3] before serving as Inspector of Ancient Monuments.

[2] These offered new evidence in the debate over the chronology of the Roman conquest of northern Britain, which may have been under Petillius Cerialis, or Agricola.

[17][18][19] She also excavated Carrawburgh fort,[20] Hadrian's Wall turret 51A (Piper Sike) in 1970[21][22][15] 34A (West Grindon) in 1971,[23] and 29A (Black Carts).