Flaxman Charles John Spurrell

Flaxman Charles John Spurrell FSA FGS (8 September 1842[1] – 25 February 1915[2]) was a British archaeologist, geologist and photographer who worked mainly in Kent and East Anglia.

While Petrie was unable to convince Spurrell to travel to Egypt with him, the objects that Petrie sent back to England were careful studied and catalogued by Spurrell, including important items discovered at Naqada and Tell el-Amarna.

In 1885 and 1889 Spurrell published his theory about the origins of the river Thames' vernacular embankments, described as a "startling suggestion" since shown to be probably correct.

[9] Despite what Petrie called “the entreaties of his friends”,[10] he seldom left Norfolk and his self-imposed retirement.

When a housing estate was built at Joyden's Wood in Bexley in the 1950s, one of the roads was named Spurrell Avenue in his honour.