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.