On 22nd January 1920 Richard J C Atkinson was born.
From 1968 to 1970 Richard J C Atkinson [aged 47] undertook excavations at Silbury Hill [Map] that were filmed by the BBC. He dug numerous trenches at the site and reopened the 1849 tunnel, where he found material suggesting a Neolithic date. His carbon dates are considered unrealiable.
On 10th October 1994 Richard J C Atkinson [aged 74] died.