Hugh O'Neill Hencken FBA (January 8, 1902 – August 31, 1981) was an American archaeologist who specialized in Iron Age Europe.
[5] Specializing in Iron Age Europe, O'Neill Hencken worked in a number of countries, including England, Ireland, Morocco, Algeria, Italy, and Greece.
[2] As curator at the Peabody Museum, he acquired much of the material and notes from the Duchess of Mecklenburg's excavations in Slovenia, conducted between 1904 and 1913, which were confiscated at the end of World War I and eventually sold at auction in the 1930s.
This included the collection from Slovene: Magdalenska gora, an important Iron Age cemetery, which O'Neill Hencken was able to finally bring to publication in 1978, sixty-five years after it was excavated.
[4] Hugh O'Neill Hencken married Mary Davies Hopkins at the Espicopal Church in Sedgefield, North Carolina on June 8, 1929.