Alexander Keiller (archaeologist)

Alexander Keiller (* 1889, † 1955) was a British amateur archeology and patron.

Keiller was heir to a marmalade factory, which since 1797 had his family in Dundee, attended Eton College and joined at 17 years after the death of his parents run the business on.

In addition, he was an amateur archaeologist, who put large amounts of money into research. In the 1920s he was a pioneer of aerial archeology in England and published in 1928 the book Wessex from the Air In the 1930s, he began excavations at Windmill Hill, who was a classical archaeological site for pit work, and later Avebury. He also acquired extensive land holdings in the vicinity of archaeological sites (3.8 square kilometers in Avebury, Windmill Hill ), which he sold in 1943 located on the National Trust. Finds from his excavations are exhibited in today's Alexander Keiller Museum of the National Trust in Avebury. Keiller restored the megalithic sites of Avebury and pointed stones scratch. The present appearance of Avebury is largely due to his commitment.

In Avebury he discovered in 1938 the skeleton of a medieval barber - surgeon who was buried under a Megalithstein.