Iain MacIvor ISO (6 May 1928 – 17 February 2017) was a British archaeologist and civil servant.
[1] Born in Carlisle, MacIvor began reading for an English degree at Durham University in 1949, where he fell under the influence of Eric Birley and began participating in archaeological excavations at the Temple of Mithras at Carrawburgh on Hadrian's Wall.
[4] David Breeze, another former student of Eric Birley, succeeded to the vacated post.
[5] MacIvor's interests gradually progressed from the Roman to the medieval and later periods – his greatest professional interest was said to be military fortifications of the Jacobite era.
[1] MacIvor was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1966, but resigned his fellowship in 2005.