 Following these excavations, she took up a lectureship at the University College of the South West of England at Exeter in 1947, and stayed until her retirement in 1971.From the late 1940s onwards, she undertook key excavations in south-west England, shedding new light on prehistoric occupation of Dartmoor, Iron Age hillforts in the region and the Roman military presence in Cornwall.In 1965, she was a founding member of the Hillforts Study Group, alongside Christopher Hawkes and others.