Helen Evangeline O'Neil (née Donovan) FSA MBE (1893 – 23 August 1984) was an English archaeologist who specialized in Iron Age settlements throughout south central England.
O'Neil, born Helen Evangeline Donovan in 1893, lived with her family at Camp House in Bourton-on-the-Water, a rural village in the Cotswolds area of south central England.
[3] O'Neil is the author of over 40 academic articles covering human artifacts such as axes, coins, and pottery in numerous sites throughout the United Kingdom , especially in Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, and Hertfordshire.
[1][5] A collection of her findings, including drawings, photographs, and numerous artifacts such as Iron Age currency bars, ornamental lead tanks, and human remains, has been displayed at the Wilson Arts Gallery and Museum,[1] which, in 1984, under its old name, the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, published records of her work and that of another prominent woman English archaeologist, Elsie Clifford.
[6] For most of her adult life, the O'Neils lived away from Gloucester, but following her husband's death in 1954,[3] she returned to Camp House in Bourton-on-the-Water, from where she conducted most of her later archaeological studies.