 After ending his work at Verulamium , Wheeler turned his attention to the late Iron Age hill @-@ fort of Maidan Castle near to Dorchester , Dorset , where he excavated for four seasons from 1934 to 1937 . Co @-@ directed by Wheeler , Tessa , and the Curator of Dorset County Museum , Charles Drew , the project was carried out under the joint auspices of the Society of Antiquaries and the Dorset Field Club . With around 100 assistants each season , the dig constituted the largest excavation that had been conducted in Britain up to that point , with Wheeler organising weekly meetings with the press to inform them about any discoveries . His excavation report was published in 1943 as Maidan Castle , Dorset . The report 's publication allowed further criticism to be voiced of Wheeler 's approach and interpretations ; in his review of the book , the archaeologist W. F. Grimes criticised the highly selective nature of the excavation , noting that Wheeler had not asked questions regarding the socio @-@ economic issues of the community at Maidan Castle , aspects of past societies that had come to be of increasing interest to British archaeology . Over coming decades , as further excavations were carried out at the site and archaeologists developed a greater knowledge of Iron Age Britain , much of Wheeler 's interpretation of the site and its development was shown to be wrong , in particular by the work of the archaeologist Niall Sharples . 
 After ending his work at Verulamium , Wheeler turned his attention to the late Iron Age hill @-@ fort of Maidan Castle near to Dorchester , Dorset , where he excavated for four seasons from 1934 to 1937 . Co @-@ directed by Wheeler , Tessa , and the Curator of Dorset County Museum , Charles Drew , the project was carried out under the joint auspices of the Society of Antiquaries and the Dorset Field Club . With around 100 assistants each season , the dig constituted the largest excavation <a href='null_relcl' title='1'><mark>that</mark></a><a href='been_done' title='2'><mark>had</mark></a> been conducted in Britain up to that point , with Wheeler organising weekly meetings with the press to inform them about any discoveries . His excavation report was published in 1943 as Maidan Castle , Dorset . The report <a href='null_genetive' title='3'><mark>'s</mark></a>publication allowed further criticism to be voiced of Wheeler <a href='null_genetive' title='4'><mark>'s</mark></a>approach and interpretations ; in his review of the book , the archaeologist W. F. Grimes criticised the highly selective nature of the excavation , noting that Wheeler <a href='been_done' title='5'><mark>had</mark></a> not asked <a href='negative_concord' title='6'><mark>questions</mark></a> regarding the socio @-@ economic issues of the community at Maidan Castle , <a href='negative_concord' title='7'><mark>aspects</mark></a> of past societies <a href='null_relcl' title='8'><mark>that</mark></a><a href='been_done' title='9'><mark>had</mark></a> come to be of increasing interest to British archaeology . Over coming decades , as further excavations <a href='uninflect' title='10'><mark>were</mark></a> carried out at the site and archaeologists developed a greater knowledge of Iron Age Britain , much of Wheeler <a href='null_genetive' title='11'><mark>'s</mark></a>interpretation of the site and its development was shown to be wrong , in particular by the work of the archaeologist Niall Sharples . 
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