Quaker. He participated in anti-war activities. At the World Archeology Conference in 1986, he took part in a boycott against South African academics as an anti-apartheid measure. After returning to England, Shaw was active in walking groups. He founded the Icknield Way Association to reopen and restore the prehistoric path from Norfolk to Wiltshire. A brief, affectionate and informative account, with photograph, of Shaw as an undergraduate appears in the June 1936 issue of the Sidney Sussex magazine, The Pheon.'' See also Archaeology of Igbo-Ukwu References External links 1914 births 2013 deaths Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Commanders of the Order of the British Empire English archaeologists English curators English pacifists English Quakers Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London People educated at Blundell's School Academic staff of the University of Ibadan British expatriates in Ghana British expatriates in Nigeria