Rupert Bruce-Mitford
British archaeologist (1914-1994) · United Kingdom · Academics · Died at 79
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Something wrong?Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-Mitford was a British archaeologist and scholar. He spent the majority of his career at the British Museum, primarily as the keeper of the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities, and was particularly known for his work on the Sutton Hoo ship-burial.
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July 1929 photograph of Peele A House at Christ's Hospital; Bruce-Mitford is indicated with a red dot at the back left
The illustration from folio 74r of the Ashmole Bestiary, which captured Bruce-Mitford's attention at Oxford
In uniform as a member of the Royal Signals, c. 1940
The Sutton Hoo helmet is one of the most iconic finds from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial
The Lycurgus CupAwards
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About this person
Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-Mitford was a British archaeologist and scholar. He spent the majority of his career at the British Museum, primarily as the keeper of the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities, and was particularly known for his work on the Sutton Hoo ship-burial. Described as the guiding spirit of such research, he oversaw the production of the monumental three-volume work The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, termed by the president of the Society of Antiquaries as "one of the great books of the century".
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