#margaret rule

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Happy International Women's Day!

Many women have played important roles in the Mary Rose story, but none more so than Margaret Rule, who was brought in for her archaeological knowledge, and went on to lead the salvage operations that lead to the raising of the Mary Rose.

Margaret Rule sadly died in 2015, but she's remembered with a gallery named in her honour, as well as a bronze bust in the museum.

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Concern for Margaret Rule missing from Crawley

Concern for Margaret Rule missing from Crawley

Police are growing concerned for a woman missing from a hospital in Crawley.

Margaret Rule was being treated at Langley Green Hospital and told staff she was going into town to visit the bank at around 5.15pm on Saturday 2ndJanuary. However she did not return or make contact with the hospital.

The 52-year-old is originally from Fareham in Surrey and because of her mental health, struggles to…

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The Calendar Woman for 8th May is Margaret Rule (1928-2015)

Margaret Rule was the archaeologist who led the expedition to excavate and raise Henry VIII’s warship Mary Rose. Her career as an archaeologist started in 1949 when she started helping to excavate bomb sites in London before redevelopment and in 1960 she and her husband discovered a Roman building in Fishbourne which turned out to be a large palace. Margaret became the Palace’s first curator, a position which she held until 1979.

Though primarily a land archaeologist, Margaret was persuaded by Alexander McKee, a military historian to advise on a project about underwater wrecks off Portsmouth. She found the wreck of the famous warship in 1971 when she and fellow marine archaeologist went diving after strong storms stirred up the seabed of the Solent. The pair set up the Mary Rose Committee to protect the wreck from looters and arranged to lease the area from the British Crown for one pound a year. The team eventually comprised of 50 employees and over 500 volunteers who made roughly 26,640 dives to the wreck, recording data and cataloguing artefacts until the ship was raised from the seafloor in 1979. The Mary Rose was returned to her original launching dock, 434 years after first setting sail. Margaret was awarded an honorary fellowship from the University of Portsmouth and appointed CBE in 1983; she passed away 9th April this year, aged 86.