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Harriet Crawford (née Browne) is an English archaeologist and scholar of the Ancient Near East, and an Emeritus Reader at University College London. She is known for her excavations in Bahrain and Kuwait

Life
Harriet Elizabeth Walston Browne was born to Sir Patrick Browne, a Queen's Counsel, and Evelyn Walston, a member of the Charity Organization Society. The Anglo-American archaeologist Charles Waldstein was her maternal grandfather.

Browne was one of the last debutantes presented to Queen Elizabeth before the monarch abolished the practice in 1958. In 1960, she married Iain Crawford. In 1963, their daughter was born.

In 1983, Browne married Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, a mathematician.

Udal
In 1963, Iain and Harriet Crawford began excavations on the Udal peninsula in North Uist, in the area Iain named Coileagan an Udail. It comprised two large and two small dunes. In 1964, they found structures in the nearby headland. In 1970, they established that a Beaker culture existed here. Harriet wrote up some of the archaeological notes in 1974.

Selected publications

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