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Honor Frost (1917-2010)
Alongside her work in the field, Frost was an energetic advocate for maritime archaeology, co-founding the Council for Nautical Archaeology and the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.
Honor Frost – pioneer of maritime archaeology – was still diving into her 90s. In fact, according to Lucy Blue on the Honor Frost Foundation’s excellent Dive & Dig podcast, she did so in the same kit she had been wearing since the 1960s. With Frost, none of this should come as a surprise.
Honor Frost, pioneer of maritime archaeology, with a stone anchor.
There are many ways to begin in archaeology, but it is safe to assume no careers advisor ever suggested fitting yourself out with an improvised breathing hose at a London party, as Frost did in order to explore a 17th-century well. Hers was never a normal life. Born in Cyprus, she moved to London as the ward of solicitor Wilf
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