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T.C. Lethbridge

Thomas Charles Lethbridge (1901 – 1971), British explorer, archaeologist and parapsychologist

Thomas Charles Lethbridge

In 2003, a group of admirers of his work calling themselves "The Sons of T.C. Lethbridge" (Doggen Foster, Kevlar Bales and Welbourn Tekh), with the aid of Julian Cope and Colin Wilson, released A Giant: The Definitive T.C. Lethbridge, a set containing a booklet and two CDs containing music accompanying discussions of Lethbridge's work.

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These, however, are generally eclipsed by the much more famous and controversial series of books he wrote at his home, Hole House, in Branscombe, Devon between 1961 and his death in 1971.

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Once he had completed his degree, he began working as a voluntary digger for Louis Clarke, the curator of the Archaeological Museum in Cambridge.

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In her monograph Anglo-Saxon Amulets and Curing Stones (1981), the archaeologist Audrey Meaney noted that Lethbridge's "observations on features in the cemeteries he excavated around Cambridge were perspicacious but in advance of his time".

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In May 1957, the Egyptologist Margaret Murray involved herself in the Gogmagog debate, championing Lethbridge's ideas against the academic fraternity in a letter which she sent to The Times.

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