Penelope Walton Rogers FSA (1950 – 10 November 2023) was a British archaeologist and expert in archaeological textiles.

She won a scholarship to Girton College, University of Cambridge at age 17, but was unable to attend due to her lifelong agoraphobia.

[2] Walton Rogers began her career in the 1970s as a volunteer at archaeological digs at Hadrian’s Wall and beneath York Minster.

Walton Rogers then set up an independent finds research practice in the 1980s, which eventually became the Anglo Saxon Laboratory,[3] which was formally established in 2001.

[1] Her friend and colleague Alan Wilkinson, who wrote her obituary for the Guardian newspaper in January 2024, called her achievements as an archaeologist "monumentally heroic", noting that her condition made it difficult for her to travel more than a few hundred yards from her flat.