Mertonian is first Briton to receive top American archaeological award

Mertonian Hugh Sackett (1949) has been awarded the Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement by the Archaeological Institute of America - the first British archaeologist to receive this award.

Since his time at Merton in the early 1950s, Hugh Sackett has divided his time between teaching classics and classical archaeology at Groton School in Massachusetts, USA, and both fieldwork and study at the British School at Athens, where he has been Honorary Vice-President since 2008. An international authority on Bronze Age Greece, he has excavated throughout Greece and Crete, including Mycenae and Sparta, and is perhaps best known for his work at Lefkandi and Palaikastro, having published landmark articles and monographs for both of these sites.