Charles William Dymond (4 August 1832 – 7 February 1915) was an English civil engineer and antiquarian.

Family

Dymond was born on 4 August 1832 as the oldest child of William and Frances Dymond. His father was a schoolmaster. On 11 July 1860, Dymond married Mary Esther Wilson. They had two children, Philip William Dymond (born 26 August 1862 at

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) and Helen Margaret Dymond (born 23 January 1864 at

Career

Dymond was a

civil engineer A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing i ...

. Dymond became a member of the

Institution of Civil Engineers The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a Charitable organization, charitable body in the United Kingdom. Based in London, ICE has over 92,000 members, of whom three-quarters ar ...

in 1870. He is remembered more for his antiquarian interests. From 1851 to 1852, he explored

Worlebury Camp Worlebury Camp (or Worlebury Hillfort) is the site of an Iron Age hillfort on Worlebury Hill, north of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. The fort was well defended with numerous walls, embankments and ditches around the site. Several larg ...

, an Iron Age camp in Somerset. He also took in interest in sites in North-West England. In 1901, he excavated Swinside Stone circle together with W. G. Collingwood, which he had already surveyed in 1872, and published a plan in the ''Journal of the British Archaeological Association''. He had an interest in Welsh culture and joined the

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of Bards of the Isle of Britain in 1899 under the name Adamant Dymond died in Near Sawrey in 1915.

Honours

UK

Dymond became a Fellow of the

Society of Antiquaries of London The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society of historians and archaeologists in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1707, received its royal charter in 1751 and is a Charitable organization, registered charity. It is based ...

in 1879. In 1900, he was elected Honorary Fellow of the

Society of Antiquaries of Scotland The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is the senior antiquarian body of Scotland, with its headquarters in the National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh. The Society's aim is to promote the cultural heritage of Scotland. The usu ...

France

He was elected member of the

Société préhistorique française The Société préhistorique française is a society founded in 1904, recognized as being of public utility in 1910. It obtained the Grand Prix de l'Archéologie in 1982. Its main activities are the organization of scientific meetings and the pu ...

in 1909.

Publications

He published treatises on prehistoric monuments and on religious issues.

References

1832 births 1915 deaths English civil engineers English Quakers Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Bards of the Gorsedd {{UK-archaeologist-stub