[3] Several other notable women archaeologists took part in this excavation, including Veronica Seton-Williams, Joan du Plat Taylor, Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop, and Margot Eates.
[4] She joined Wheeler's excavation at Camp d'Artus near Huelgoat, Finistère, Brittany in 1938 and subsequent explorations in Normandy in 1939.
Wheeler's biographer Jacquetta Hawkes noted that Wheeler had developed romantic feelings for Collingridge by this stage, although he married Mavis de Vere Cole in 1939, three years after the death of his first wife Tessa.
[5] Margaret Collingridge joined the ATS during the Second World War and learned range-finding.
[8][9] In 1954, Margaret joined Dame Kathleen Kenyon's excavations at Jericho.