In 1965, the Ministry of Works asked Jones to conduct an excavation at Linford, a gravel pit near the village of Mucking on the Thames Estuary.
As the largest excavation in Britain, Mucking was renowned amongst archaeologists in the late 1960s and 1970s: in its obituary of Jones, The Independent said of it, "for a generation of respectable middle-aged archaeologists .. to have dug with Margaret Jones at Mucking remains a badge of honour" [REF].