Elizabeth Eames

Elizabeth Sara Eames FSA (24 June 1918 – 20 September 2008)[1] was a British archaeologist and scholar who specialised in the study of medieval tiles.

Her expertise grew out of a job at the British Museum which involved cataloguing and conserving their collection of decorated English medieval floor tiles.

This consists of two volumes discussing and illustrating 13,882 tiles in meticulous detail,[5] the oldest from the late Anglo-Saxon period and the most recent from the sixteenth century.

A 1983 London conference recognising Eames' achievements was attended by fellow scholars from several countries and there are Danish and German catalogues modelled on hers, like Eleonore Landgraf's Ornamentierte Bodenfliesen des Mittelalters in Süd- und Westdeutschland 1150-1550.

[4][5] Eames was a popular teacher at university, extramural and general interest classes in various London institutions and continued this into her eighties.

As well as being a vice-president of the BAA she contributed to its brick section which added to her reputation as a "considerable figure in the study of medieval building construction".