Crawford, Osbert Guy Stanhope (1886-1957)

British archaeologist. He introduced aerial survey as a means of finding and interpreting remains, an idea conceived during World War I. A leading field archaeologist, he was the first archaeology officer of the Ordnance Survey 1920-46.

He greatly improved the archaeological information on Ordnance Survey maps, and was responsible for the organization's first period maps. From 1927 he was founder-editor of the quarterly archaeology review Antiquity. His publications include Wessex from the Air with A Keiller 1928, Archaeology in the Field 1953, and his autobiography Scud and Done 1955.