Maud Edith Cunnington CBE (née Pegge; 24 September 1869 – 28 February 1951) was a Welsh archaeologist, best known for her pioneering work on some of the most important prehistoric sites of Salisbury Plain.

These included the first known Neolithic causewayed enclosure at Knap Hill, the Iron Age village at All Cannings Cross, West Kennet Long Barrow, Figsbury Ring, Woodhenge (near Stonehenge),[2] and The Sanctuary.

[10] In 1912, Cunnington worked with her husband Ben to supervise the re-erection of the last standing stone at Beckhampton Cove at Avebury, which had fallen the previous year.

While working at the Beckhamptom Cove site, she discovered the skeleton of a "middle-aged man" buried with a pottery beaker, dating from 2385 to 2230 BC.

The site is approximately 60 meters (200 ft) south of Durrington Walls and 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north east of Stonehenge.

Cunnington completely excavated the ditch structure of the henge, discovering large amounts of Grooved ware pottery, animal and human bones, charcoal and a stone axe that was carved from polished greenstone originating from Cornwall, approximately 290 kilometres (180 mi) away.

[12] Following the excavation of Woodhenge, in 1930 Cunnington discovered and worked on The Sanctuary site on Overton Hill at the terminus of Beckhampton Avenue near Avebury Henge.

Cunnington discovered that the innermost ring was the oldest, based on pottery shards found in that area that were from about 2000 BC; she called this Phase I.