Isobel Foster Smith (22 December 1912 – 18 November 2005)[1] was a Canadian-born British archaeologist who is best known for her work at Avebury and its surroundings.
After World War II, she moved to London where she enrolled for a part-time diploma at the Institute of Archaeology.
[2] She asked Smith to write up his excavations from the 1920s and 1930s, a huge task that was eventually completed with the publication in 1965 of Windmill Hill and Avebury.
[3] Smith took a permanent position at the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, where she remained as Senior Investigator until her retirement in 1978.
[4] Smith moved to Avebury for the start of her work in 1956, and continued to live there for the rest of her life.