Elsie Margaret Clifford FSA OBE (1885 – 1976) was a British archaeologist.
Born into a farming family at Little Witcombe, Clifford became interested in archaeology after making finds in her father’s fields, and in the 1920s was invited by M.C.
[3] Her archaeological work often consisted of re-excavating existing sites, such as the Neolithic barrows at Notgrove (1934 – 6), Nympsfield and Rodmarton, and Roman villas at Hucclecote, Barnwood and Witcombe.
She returned in 1961 to direct a dig at the previously unexcavated Iron Age settlement there.
[5][6] She received an OBE for services to archaeology in 1968, as well as serving on the council of the Society of Antiquaries, as President of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club (1936 – 8),[4] and as the first woman president of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (1949).