Rupert Bruce-Mitford

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Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-Mitford (surname sometimes referred to as "Mitford") (1914-1994) was a British archaeologist best known for his multi-volume publication on the Sutton Hoo ship burial.[1]

Bruce-Mitford was born in Streatham (London), UK and died at Oxford. He was working for the British Museum, London, in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities in 1939, and, following the bequest of the Sutton Hoo Treasure to the nation in 1942, he was charged with leading the project to study and publish the find. This he did through several decades at the British Museum. He also became President of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

[edit] Major Works

  • The Corpus of Late Celtic Hanging-Bowls
  • Aspects of Anglo Saxon Archaeology ISBN 057501704x
  • Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
  • The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved
  • Mawgan Porth: A Settlement of the Late Saxon Period on the North Cornish Coast
  • Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology: Sutton Hoo and Other Discoveries

[edit] References

  1. ^ Rupert Bruce-Mitford

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