Rupert Bruce-Mitford

Rupert Bruce-Mitford FBA FSA
Born	14 June 1914 Streatham, London, England
Died	10 March 1994(1994-03-10) (aged 79) Oxford, England
Nationality	English
Education	Hertford College, Oxford (MA, DLitt)
Occupation	Archaeologist
Spouses	Kathleen Dent ​ (m. 1941⁠–⁠1972)​ Marilyn Luscombe ​ ​ (m. 1975⁠–⁠1984)​ Margaret Adams ​ (m. 1988⁠–⁠1994)​
Children	3
Parents	Charles Eustace Bruce-Mitford Beatrice Allison
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Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-Mitford FBA FSA (14 June 1914 – 10 March 1994) 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. Considered the "spiritus rector" 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".

Though Bruce-Mitford was born in London, the preceding two generations had lived largely abroad: his maternal grandparents as early settlers of British Columbia, his paternal grandparents as missionaries in India, and his parents as schoolteachers recently returned from Japan. When Bruce-Mitford was five, his father, who had returned to Japan two years earlier, died. His mother was left to raise the four sons, of which Bruce-Mitford was the youngest, on a tiny salary; the stresses were substantial, and Bruce-Mitford was fostered for a time after his mother had a breakdown. Bruce-Mitford attended preparatory school with the support of a relative, was admitted to the charity school Christ's Hospital five years later, and, in 1933, was awarded a Baring Scholarship in History to attend Hertford College, Oxford. Recommending him for a museum curatorship in 1936, the University Appointments Board noted that he "has an exceptional gift for research, a sphere in which he could do work of outstanding merit".

After spending a year as an assistant keeper at the Ashmolean Museum, during which he produced "the first serious study of medieval pottery", in December 1937, Bruce-Mitford was appointed to the British Museum's Department of British and Medieval Antiquities. The ship-burial was excavated in 1939, weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War; Bruce-Mitford spent 1940 to 1946 in the Royal Corps of Signals, and returned with a warning from the department's Keeper: "You will also be responsible for Sutton Hoo. Brace yourself for this task." Bruce-Mitford spent much of the next four decades focused on the subject, publishing dozens of works, studying contemporary graves in Scandinavia (excavating a boat-grave in Sweden and learning Swedish and Danish along the way), and leading a second round of excavations at Sutton Hoo from 1965 to 1970.

In his other duties, Bruce-Mitford excavated at the Mawgan Porth Dark Age Village, published significant works on the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Codex Amiatinus, as well as the posthumous opus A Corpus of Late Celtic Hanging-Bowls, translated P. V. Glob's book The Bog People into English, and oversaw the acquisition of the Lycurgus Cup and Courtenay Adrian Ilbert's collection of thousands of clocks and watches, considered "the greatest collection of horology in the world". He also founded the Society for Medieval Archaeology, and served as secretary, and later vice-president, of the Society of Antiquaries. After his retirement from the British Museum in 1977, he served as Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge, a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and, finally, a Faculty Visitor in the Department of English at the Australian National University.

Early life and background

Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-Mitford was born on 14 June 1914 at 1 Deerhurst Road, Streatham, London. Following Terence, Vidal and Alaric (Alex), he was the fourth of four sons born to Charles Eustace and Beatrice Jean Bruce-Mitford; a daughter did not survive. Family tradition has it that Rupert's brothers were responsible for his given names, selecting them from their reading: Rupert from Anthony Hope's Rupert of Hentzau, Leo from Rider Haggard's She, and Scott from either Robert Falcon Scott's diary, or his "Message to England".

Bruce-Mitford's paternal great-grandparents, George and Elizabeth Beer, sailed to the Godavari River Delta in India to work as missionaries in 1836; "poor unordained Baptist missionaries" when they left, in the words of Anthony Norris Groves, they went on, according to Groves's biographer, to "stand amongst the most tenacious Christian workers of all time". Their two sons, John William and Charles Henry, continued the calling, while their two daughters married school teachers in the area. In 1866 John Beer married Margaret Anne Midford, the daughter of an English family living in Machilipatnam. They had five children, including in 1871 Herbert Leonard and in 1875 Eustace, Rupert Bruce-Mitford's father. The family returned to Devon in 1884, when John Beer fell ill. He died shortly after arrival; his wife returned to India, but died there four years later. Eustace Beer, Rupert Bruce-Mitford later wrote, was "himself twice orphaned while still a small boy". By 1891 he was in England, having either returned or never left following his father's death. After studying in Exeter he taught English and Classics at Blackburn Grammar School, but then sailed from Genoa in 1901 to teach at the "School for European Boys" founded by his brother Herbert in Weihaiwei, China. He left less than nine months later, however, departing to Japan. As Rupert Bruce-Mitford later wrote, he departed "with ambitions to set up his own school, and devise its curriculum and ethos according to his own ideas".

Shortly before his 1902 departure to China, Eustace Beer adopted the surname Bruce-Mitford—perhaps indicative of his desire to separate himself from his family's missionary past. "Mitford" was a take on "Midford", his mother's maiden name, and perhaps not unintentionally, that of the unrelated Algernon Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, whose name carried respect in the British expatriate community in Japan. "Bruce" may have been taken from Major Clarence Dalrymple Bruce, an acquaintance who commanded the Weihaiwei Regiment. In Japan Eustace founded the Yokohama Modern School, which targeted the sons of English, or English-speaking, businessmen and missionaries. In 1903, and likely on the basis of his book and articles on Weihaiwei, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; he subsequently became interested in geography and vulcanology, writing additional works on the country.

Eustace Bruce-Mitford had met Beatrice Allison on his ship to Yokohama, and soon after founding his school recruited her as an assistant teacher; they married on 27 July 1904, at Christ Church, Yokohama. She was the eldest daughter of early settlers of British Columbia, Susan Louisa (née Moir) and John Fall Allison, an explorer, gold prospector, and cattle rancher. In 1908, however, by which time the family had three sons, William Awdry, the Bishop of South Tokyo, announced from the pulpit of Christ Church that "certain marriages of British subjects celebrated in Japan" might not be legally valid, and if so "the couples ... will find that they have been and are living together ... in concubinage and that their children are 'illegitimate'". Though a legal technicality, and one which was remedied by an Act of Parliament in 1912, the announcement disgraced the Bruce-Mitfords, and Eustace lost his leadership of the Yokohama Modern School. He was taken on as an assistant editor by Captain Francis Brinkley, owner and editor of the Japan Mail, though by 1911 had returned to England as a freelance journalist. Rupert Bruce-Mitford was born three years after his family returned from Japan. Three years later, his father left for India to work as an assistant editor at the Madras Mail. Eustace died following a short fever in 1919, when he was forty-four and Rupert five.

Following the death of his father, Bruce-Mitford later wrote, "the family was stranded in London and fell on very hard times". His mother then earned roughly £220 a year (equivalent to £15,800 in 2023), of which she lent £120 (equivalent to £8,600 in 2023) to Terence and Vidal, to be repaid after their studies, and spent 16s6d weekly (equivalent to £60 in 2023) for part of a house. Bruce-Mitford was also frequently sick as a child, coming down with scarlet fever and diphtheria when aged two, and influenza when around six. The stresses on the family were substantial, and at one point Beatrice Bruce-Mitford had a breakdown, causing Rupert to be fostered for a time.

Education

The illustration from folio 74r of the Ashmole Bestiary, which captured Bruce-Mitford's attention at Oxford

Orphaned and poor, Rupert Bruce-Mitford was educated with the financial support of his mother's cousin. She did so, Bruce-Mitford later wrote, "on one condition – that my father's novel, depicting life in Yokohama at the turn of the century, should be burnt; she thought it immoral and scurrilous". Around 1920, Bruce-Mitford was thereby sent to Brightlands preparatory school in Dulwich, London, which his brothers Terence and Alec also attended, receiving scholarships to Dulwich College. Bruce-Mitford was baptised around the same time, perhaps to improve his later chances of admittance to the charity school Christ's Hospital. Five years later the Brightlands headmaster nominated Bruce-Mitford to take an examination for Christ's Hospital. Following success in the examination—covering the compulsory subjects of English, arithmetic and practical mensuration as well as all three optional subjects of Latin, French, and mathematics—and his mother's petition for him "to be Educated and Maintained among other poor Children", he was admitted on 17 September 1925.

Bruce-Mitford was successful, and happy, at Christ's Hospital. He was also introduced to archaeology; in 1930 he participated in a dig with S. E. Winbolt at the Jacobean ironworks in Dedisham, Sussex. Winbolt wrote in the school magazine that "unhappily the 'dig' produced no useful results", but added that "possibly, however, the C.H. diggers learnt something", and named Bruce-Mitford "among willing helpers, mentioned honoris causa". Meanwhile, Bruce-Mitford was active in school events, including playing rugby and cricket, acting in (and directing the orchestra for) John Galsworthy's The Little Man, debating at the Horsham Workers' Educational Association, and writing his first article, on a ten-day signals camp held over the 1931 summer holiday.

By the time Bruce-Mitford was 16 or 17, his studies had been switched from classics to history; "I was not very good at Greek and Latin", he later wrote, despite devoted tutoring by his brother Terence. Around the same time, he came across Samuel Gardner's English Gothic Foliage Sculpture in the school's library, and upon reading it discovered his love of the concrete and visual. In 1933, he was awarded a £100 Baring Scholarship in History to attend Hertford College, Oxford. This was a "surprise", he wrote, "for I never had a head for dates and treaties". But at Oxford Bruce-Mitford "fell in love with the atmosphere and smell of the oldest part of the Library where, under the flat-arched 15th century ceiling, cases displaying illuminated manuscripts were set out". One, the twelfth-century Ashmole Bestiary, open to a folio of a red eagle on a background of gold, so captured his attention that "after some weeks I could stand my ignorance and quell my curiosity no longer", and, "[s]crewing up my courage", asked for permission to see it; he remained absorbed in the work through lunch and until evicted at the end of the day.

During school vacations, Bruce-Mitford often took the tram to the British Museum, where he spent time in the Reading Room. He also walked around the building, listening to guest lecturers speak on the objects, and particularly enjoying hearing about the Chinese paintings and the Royal Gold Cup. In 1936, he took a Second Class in Modern History, and in Michaelmas term began a Bachelor of Letters on "The Development of English Narrative Art in the Fourteenth Century". The research included an investigation of the pigments (particularly "Egyptian blue") used in early illuminated manuscripts. Bruce-Mitford's supervisor was Robin Flower, deputy keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum. The same year, the University Appointments Board recommended Bruce-Mitford for the curatorship of the York Castle Museum, writing that he "would do well in a trading or administrative post, but has an exceptional gift for research, a sphere in which he could do work of outstanding merit". Though he never finished the B.Litt., he went on to obtain a Master of Arts in 1961, and a Doctor of Letters in 1987, both from Hertford College.

Career

Ashmolean Museum

By 1937, Bruce-Mitford had taken a position as a one-year assistant keeper at the Ashmolean Museum. Initial work included rearranging and displaying the museum's collection of medieval pilgrims' badges. Soon, however, he was introduced to what would be later termed rescue archaeology, when a group of seventeenth-century houses gave way to a large extension to the Bodleian Library. Before the demolition, Bodley's Librarian invited the Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society "to investigate and record any features of architectural or antiquarian interest which are contained in the block of houses ... and also to watch for any finds that may turn up during the demolition of these houses and the subsequent excavations for the foundations of the new building". The Society, in turn, created a subcommittee consisting of E. T. Long, Edward Thurlow Leeds, and William Abel Pantin, the latter of whom wrote an article on the houses and commented on the "practical consideration or morals to be drawn" from their destruction.

Demolition lasted from December 1936 to March 1937, after which began, according to the geologist William Joscelyn Arkell, "the removal of the greatest quantity of subsoil ... ever taken out of one hole within the City of Oxford". Bruce-Mitford was tasked with watching the site during the excavation. Much of his work involved waiting for the well in front of each house to be dug out, revealing two or three feet of mud at the bottom, filled with broken medieval pottery and other artefacts. He waited "impotently", he later recalled, for the jaws of the mechanical diggers (which would not wait for the archaeologists) to pick up the mud and transfer it to a lorry; he then jumped aboard, and picked out the artefacts as the lorry made its way "to some gravel hungry site at Cumnor". When back at the Ashmolean, he would wash the sherds and stick them together. Bruce-Mitford's "energy and keen eye captured a treasure chest", the archaeologist Maureen Mellor wrote four decades later. Because the wells quickly silted up during their use and be replaced by new ones every 50 or so years, Bruce-Mitford found it possible to accurately date pottery within uniquely short time-frames. In 1939, he published an article on the finds, in which he described, among other things, five distinct groups of pottery in their probable chronological order; his brother Alaric provided the illustrations. This was "the first serious study of medieval pottery", wrote Mellor, and "has never had to be challenged, although refined and extended". Bruce-Mitford's work also influenced him, decades later, to create a national reference collection of medieval pottery at the British Museum.

British Museum

In December 1937, Bruce-Mitford was named assistant keeper (second class) of the then Department of British and Medieval Antiquities at the British Museum. He was possibly helped in this position by his professor from two years previously, Robin Flower, also the deputy keeper of Manuscripts. The following year Bruce-Mitford was reacquainted with archaeological work, spending three weeks with Gerhard Bersu at the Iron Age site of Little Woodbury in Wiltshire. "I learned a lot", he later wrote, "and loved being out on the chalk, in the fresh air." There Bruce-Mitford met Charles Phillips, the secretary of The Prehistoric Society (for which Bersu was digging).

In 1939 Bruce-Mitford was tasked with leading an excavation, this time at the medieval village of Seacourt in Oxfordshire. Though Seacourt was a difficult site, Bruce-Mitford thought it would be possible to determine a complete ground plan of domestic buildings and of the church. It was also, he wrote, "a village deserted, in ruins, and archaeologically sealed within a century of the Black Death"; this precise dating—the village was deserted by 1439—"promised to provide important evidence for specialists in connexion with the chronology of mediaeval pottery and small objects" such as "brooches, ornaments, buckles, fittings of various kinds, shears, horseshoes, [and] nails" the dating of which was "notoriously vague". Excavations wrapped up 15 July 1939, seven weeks before Britain's entry into the Second World War.

Second World War

From 1940 to 1946, Bruce-Mitford served in the Royal Corps of Signals. Joining as a lance corporal and initially assigned to a territorial unit in Essex, he transmitted morse code during the day, after which he watched for fires from the dome of St Paul's Cathedral. He was in Catterick Camp in North Yorkshire by autumn, when The Yorkshire Archæological Journal reported that he and his friends cleared out a hypocaust at Middleham, "made plans and took photographs, and, while confirming [John] Topham's observations [from a c. 1882 excavation], added several important details". The photographs were taken by Eric Lomax.

Bruce-Mitford was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 1 February 1941, a first lieutenant on 1 August 1942, an acting captain on 20 November 1942, and a temporary captain on 26 February 1943. By 1943 he was working on the publications staff of the School of Signals at Catterick, where he authored a booklet on wireless communication, attempted to reorganise the Northern Command's signals system, and travelled around Yorkshire by motorcycle, laying cable. From 1943 to 1945, he led parties from the School of Signals to archaeological and other sites across Northern England, including Richmond Castle, Jervaulx Abbey, Easby Parish Church, Stanwick St John, Middleham Castle, and the Georgian Theatre Royal, taking notes and commentaries when there.

Return to the British Museum

Sutton Hoo

Bruce-Mitford spent the war awaiting his return to the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities. As early as 1940, T. D. Kendrick—then Keeper of the department, and later director of the museum—wrote to Bruce-Mitford at his army camp, telling him he would be responsible for the collection of Anglo-Saxon antiquities, the Germanic collections of Europe, and the Late Celtic collections of the British Isles. The letter closed with a warning: "You will also be responsible for Sutton Hoo. Brace yourself for this task." Bruce-Mitford's responsibility for the Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo ship-burial, wrote the Oxford scholar Martin Biddle, would become "the defining moment of Rupert's life, his greatest challenge, the source of almost insuperable difficulties, and his greatest achievement". Discharged from the army as an honorary captain in early 1946, Bruce-Mitford immediately returned to the museum.

The Sutton Hoo helmet is one of the most iconic finds from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial, for which Bruce-Mitford was responsible

Bruce-Mitford returned to a museum that had suffered during the war. Understaffed and with inadequate facilities, the museum had much of its collection still in storage. The Sutton Hoo finds, excavated in 1939 and nearly immediately taken to the safety of the tunnel connecting the Aldwych and Holborn tube stations, had been returned to the museum only a year or two before. Herbert Maryon, a Technical Attaché recruited for the task, set to work restoring what Bruce-Mitford later termed "the real headaches – notably the crushed shield, helmet and drinking horns". "When I began work", he continued, "I sat with Maryon while he took me through the material and with infectious enthusiasm, demonstrated what he was doing". "There followed great days for Sutton Hoo when new, often dramatic, discoveries were being made in the workshops all the time. Built from fragments, astonishing artefacts – helmet, shield, drinking horns, and so on – were recreated."

Early in 1946, Kendrick and Bruce-Mitford placed restored artefacts from Sutton Hoo on display in the museum's King Edward VII Gallery. In January 1947, Bruce-Mitford was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the museum published The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial: A Provisional Guide, which Bruce-Mitford had written and produced during evenings at his kitchen table. The work, wrote Biddle, quickly "turned out to be one of the Museum's most successful publications ever", going through ten impressions even before the second edition was issued. Also in 1947, Bruce-Mitford visited Sweden for six weeks at the invitation of the archaeologist Sune Lindqvist. The visit, Bruce-Mitford later wrote, "turned out to be one of the most rewarding experiences of my life". Bruce-Mitford studied the similar finds from Vendel and Valsgärde and helped Lindqvist excavate the boat-grave from Valsgärde 11, learning Swedish along the way.

Although Bruce-Mitford continued to write prolifically on Sutton Hoo—he quickly became, in the words of Francis Peabody Magoun, the "spiritus rector of present day Sutton Hoo research"—a definitive publication remained elusive. Writing a memorandum to Kendrick in May 1949, Bruce-Mitford outlined a plan for "[t]hree large volumes" and possibly a fourth, buttressed by "a formidable array of technical reports obtained at my request from outside scientists", and accompanied by the "hope that the publication will set a new standard in archaeological publication". But he admitted that he could not see "any real prospect of getting the catalogue out the way things are at present", and in a 1957 addendum, he wrote "[t]here was no reply to this report". The museum had other needs, and Bruce-Mitford other responsibilities; the country plunged into the Korean War, and resources were diverted elsewhere.

Other matters

Bruce-Mitford (left) and Paul Ashbee (right) excavating at the Mawgan Porth Dark Age Village in Cornwall in 1950

Throughout the 1950s, Bruce-Mitford's attention was directed away from Sutton Hoo. In these "fallow years for Sutton Hoo", as Biddle termed them, germinated many of the other defining contributions of Bruce-Mitford's career. From 1949 to 1952, as well as in 1954 and 1974, Bruce-Mitford excavated at the Mawgan Porth Dark Age Village in Cornwall. In February 1954, he was appointed Deputy Keeper in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and in August he took over the keepership from a retiring A. B. Tonnochy. That same year, he was appointed to the Ancient Monuments Board for England, on which he would serve until at least 1975. In 1955, Bruce-Mitford joined Sir Wilfred Le Gros Clark and Harold Plenderleith to search Lincoln Cathedral for the burial place of Saint Hugh of Lincoln, and in 1957, he helped found the Society for Medieval Archaeology, becoming its first president. Bruce-Mitford also began developing an interest in, and began compiling information on, Celtic hanging bowls. He became a semi-regular participant in the show Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?, too, appearing in 1955, 1956, 1958, and 1959. In 1960, Bruce-Mitford opened an exhibition, "Archaeology from the Air", at the Victoria Galleries in Kingston upon Hull.

This time also saw Bruce-Mitford's primary work on early medieval manuscripts. In 1956 and 1960, he published a two-volume work—facsimile and commentary—on the Codex Lindisfarnensis. The work was his first major publication; the museum gave him four-month's leave to focus on the work, including time at the Royal Library in Copenhagen and the Laurentian Library in Florence. The result, according to the journal Antiquity, was "magistral". While at the Laurentian Bruce-Mitford also studied the Codex Amiatinus, eventually resulting in a Jarrow Lecture on the subject in 1967. Meanwhile, Bruce-Mitford translated P. V. Glob's 1965 book The Bog People from Danish to English; the translation was published in 1969.

The Lycurgus Cup

Though Bruce-Mitford helped secure acquisitions throughout his 21 years as keeper, two of his most significant efforts came in 1958. That year, the museum purchased the Lycurgus Cup from Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild for £20,000. The museum also purchased Courtenay Adrian Ilbert's collection of clocks and watches. This, wrote Biddle, was "the greatest collection of horology in the world", and Bruce-Mitford's "greatest coup". After Ilbert died in 1956, his collection—some 210 clocks and 2,300 watches and watch movements—was set for auction at Christie's. Although the treasury declined a request for funds, Bruce-Mitford approached the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, which was able to secure a donor to purchase the clocks for the museum. The company then again approached the treasury, the chancellor of which this time agreed to petition parliament for the funds. The collection was purchased for the museum, and Bruce-Mitford was made a liveryman of the company.

Meanwhile, in 1960, Bruce-Mitford embarked on an ultimately unsuccessful two-year attempt to acquire what would become known as the Cloisters Cross. The ivory cross, which a panel of experts at the museum declared "one of the finest and most impressive objects of the 12th century they [had] ever seen", appeared at the museum on 5 December 1960, following years of rumours as to its existence; Bruce-Mitford was alerted by a note marked "URGENT" that there was "a man at present over in Manuscript" with the cross, and that "this is the last day the man will be in London". Bruce-Mitford studied the cross over the ensuing two years, including four days spent in a bank vault in Zurich, assembled a file an inch and a half thick, and successfully persuaded the treasury to allocate £195,000 for its purchase. But the purported owner, Ante Topić Mimara, steadfastly refused to disclose how he had obtained possession of the unprovenanced cross, amid swirling doubts about his background, and that the cross might be Nazi loot. The museum was unwilling to pay without this information and, with Mimara unwilling to disclose it, the museum's option expired at midnight on 31 January 1963. The Metropolitan Museum of Art had been waiting in the wings; its curator Thomas Hoving, untroubled by the issues with the cross and owner, stayed up with Mimara and purchased it immediately.

Return to Sutton Hoo

Frank Francis took over as director from a retiring Kendrick in 1959, and the following year made two floors of a Montague Street house available for Bruce-Mitford to devote to Sutton Hoo. A research assistant was added in 1962 and, eventually, thirteen people were involved in the operation. By then, criticism over the delays in publication had begun to mount; a 1964 article by Christopher Hawkes lamented the fact that "[a] quarter of a century has passed ... and Sutton Hoo is still not published", and concluded that the museum "really must go to it". Much of the criticism landed on the shoulders of Bruce-Mitford, leading the archaeologist Robert T. Farrell to observe that "it has become something of a trend to slate Bruce-Mitford for delay". After the volumes were ultimately published, Hawkes and his wife Sonia went as far as to translate, privately publish, and distribute amongst colleagues, a biting German review by Joachim Werner; Sir David M. Wilson, who became director of the museum in 1977, disparaged Bruce-Mitford in his 2002 book The British Museum: A History, and wrote that work on the Sutton Hoo volumes "presents a precautionary, if unique, tale of procrastination and obfuscation". If part of the delay was attributable to what Biddle termed "Rupert's dogged perfectionism", such criticism perhaps failed to account for the many other demands on Bruce-Mitford's time, and the museum's delay in making resources available for the publication. It also perhaps did not recognise the scope of the undertaking, which involved modernising multiple fields of research—such as the proper chronology of Merovingian coins, used to date the burial; the study of textiles; and the study of soil, used to determine whether the burial was a grave or a cenotaph—and the re-excavation of the ship-burial.

From 1965 to 1970, Bruce-Mitford led another round of excavations at Sutton Hoo. The purpose, he said, was to acquire "more information about the mound, the ship and the circumstances of the burial". Especially given that the original two-week excavation had been an exercise in rescue archaeology, an excavation without the looming spectre of war might discover items or features that had been missed. In 1968, Bruce-Mitford updated the Provisional Guide with a new edition, now entitled The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial: A Handbook; second and third editions of the Handbook followed in 1972 and 1979. In 1974, he published Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology. The book contained twelve updated and rewritten chapters that had appeared elsewhere, along with four new chapters; originally conceived as a reference work which the forthcoming Sutton Hoo publication would cite throughout, it also, Bruce-Mitford wrote, provided "shorter and more readily accessible accounts" of certain portions of the burial.

The first volume of The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial finally appeared in 1975. It focused on the larger issues of the burial—such as the site, the excavations, the ship, the date of the burial, and the questions of whom it honoured, and whether or not it was a cenotaph. The book was widely welcomed. A. J. Taylor, then president of the Society of Antiquaries, hailed the publication as "one of the great books of the century", and the art critic Terence Mullaly suggested it marked a "com[ing] of age" for archaeology, writing that it "sets standards for archaeologists everywhere".

Also in 1975, Bruce-Mitford relinquished his role as Keeper of the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities to spend two years as Research Keeper. This period was the only time during Bruce-Mitford's career which he was able to devote exclusively to Sutton Hoo. Amongst some internal conflict, some of the museum's trustees, led by Eric Fletcher, Baron Fletcher, sought to refuse to permit Bruce-Mitford the last six months; the effort was stymied by the advocacy of Sir Grahame Clark and A. J. Taylor, who had seen the first volume of The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial shortly after printing, and were able to report being "impressed ... by the copiousness and quality of the volume". During this period, in 1976, Bruce-Mitford was also elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

The second volume of The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, covering arms, armour, and regalia, followed in 1978, and the third volume, published in two parts and covering many items including the silver objects, hanging bowls, drinking vessels, textiles, and lyre, came in 1983. The series was widely acclaimed; Farrell termed it "a series which in scope and format is one of the most monumental to have been undertaken in the field of medieval archaeology", and Catherine Hills "[a] monument of publication [which] enshrines the original monument". Martin Carver, to whom Bruce-Mitford "handed the Sutton Hoo baton" after publication of the work, called the publication "the most compendious ever produced for a British archaeological site".

A fourth volume had been planned to offer thoughts on the relationship between Sutton Hoo and Beowulf, the connection between Sutton Hoo and Sweden, studies of comparable materials, and any needed revisions, although its fate was uncertain even after volume one was in press.

After the British Museum

Bruce-Mitford left the British Museum after his Research Keepership ended in 1977. From 1978 to 1979, he served as Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge, and in the same year served as a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. In 1981, he took his last position at Australian National University, where he was a Faculty Visitor in the Department of English. Two years later, he was elected an Honorary Fellow at Hertford College, where he had matriculated 50 years before.

During these years, Bruce-Mitford worked to bring old works to publication. He finished his work on the excavations at Mawgan Porth; the book was published posthumously in 1997. He also resumed work on the opus A Corpus of Late Celtic Hanging-Bowls, on which he had begun work in the 1940s, and which was finished by Shiela Raven and published in 2005. The result, a 500-page tome with 800 illustrations, was reviewed as "a fitting memorial to Dr Bruce-Mitford whose contribution to early medieval archaeology — and to metalwork studies in particular — was immense".

Personal life

Bruce-Mitford was married three times, and had three children by his first wife. In 1941 he married Kathleen Dent, with whom he fathered Myrtle (b. 1943), Michael (b. 1946), and Miranda (b. 1951). A professional cellist, Myrtle Bruce-Mitford herself contributed to the Sutton Hoo finds, being employed by the British Museum to work on the remnants of the lyre and co-authoring a paper with her father. She was also the longtime partner of Nigel Williams, who from 1970 to 1971 reconstructed the Sutton Hoo helmet.

Bruce-Mitford's relationship with Dent was "long in trouble", and he left home in the later 1950s and formed a series of relationships. He married his former research assistant Marilyn Roberta Luscombe on 11 July 1975, after announcing the engagement in March. The two had met eight years prior, when Bruce-Mitford was interviewing her for the position; knowing who Bruce-Mitford was but believing him to be dead, Luscomb said she "quoted at length from one of his archaeological papers" before realizing she was interviewing with him. The marriage was dissolved in 1984, at which point Bruce-Mitford found it necessary to sell his library, which went to Okinawa Christian Junior College in Japan. In 1986 he married for a third time, to Margaret Edna Adams, a child psychiatrist and published poet, whom he had met at Oxford fifty years before.

In 1987, Bruce-Mitford visited British Columbia, where his mother's family was from. He met cousins living on a reservation there and, Biddle wrote, was "deeply moved" by The Lake, an opera about early life in the Okanagan Valley. Biddle noted that Bruce-Mitford "was fascinated by his family's background" in both British Columbia and Japan.

After years of inherited heart disease, on 10 March 1994 Bruce-Mitford died of a heart attack at the John Radcliffe Hospital; he had driven himself there two days before. He was buried eight days later in the burial ground by St Mary's Church in Bampton, Oxfordshire. The Guardian recalled him as amongst "that tiny band of scholars whose names are linked with great archaeological discoveries". A service was held at St George's, Bloomsbury on 14 June; the address was given by Biddle, and later published in The Hertford College Magazine. Bruce-Mitford's widow, Margaret Edna Adams, died in 2002.

Bruce-Mitford was a member of Marylebone Cricket Club, and a member or regular at the Athenaeum and the Garrick. He enjoyed cricket and boxing.

Publications

Many of the works below are listed in Bruce-Mitford 1989b, the catalogue of Bruce-Mitford's library produced in preparation for its sale. The first 156 items in the catalogue are works by or about Bruce-Mitford; Bruce-Mitford's personal copy is held by Columbia University's Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, and contains 14 additional works added by hand.

Books

• Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (1947a). The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial: A Provisional Guide. London: Trustees of the British Museum. OCLC 869758063.
• ——— (2 November 1951). The Society of Antiquaries of London: Notes on its History and Possessions. London: Society of Antiquaries of London. OCLC 1030053915.
• Kendrick, Thomas Downing; Brown, Thomas Julian; Bruce-Mitford, Rupert; Roosen-Runge, Heinz; Ross, Alan Strode Campbell; Stanley, Eric Gerald & Werner, Alfred Emil Anthony, eds. (1956). Codex Lindisfarnensis. Vol. I. Olten: Urs Graf. OCLC 1440544.

• Kendrick, Thomas Downing; Brown, Thomas Julian; Bruce-Mitford, Rupert; Roosen-Runge, Heinz; Ross, Alan Strode Campbell; Stanley, Eric Gerald & Werner, Alfred Emil Anthony, eds. (1960). Codex Lindisfarnensis. Vol. II. Olten: Urs Graf. OCLC 1440544.

• Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (1968). The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial: A Handbook. London: Trustees of the British Museum. SBN 7141-1320-4.

• ——— (1972). The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial: A Handbook (2nd ed.). London: Trustees of the British Museum. SBN 7141-1330-1.
• ——— (1979). The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial: A Handbook (3rd ed.). London: British Museum Publications Ltd. ISBN 0-7141-1343-3.

• Glob, P. V. (1969). The Bog People: Iron Age man preserved. Translated by Bruce-Mitford, Rupert. London: Faber and Faber.

• Published in United States as Glob, P. V. (1969). The Bog People: Iron Age man preserved. Translated by Bruce-Mitford, Rupert. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

• Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (1974a). Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology: Sutton Hoo and Other Discoveries. London: Victor Gollancz Limited. ISBN 0-575-01704-X.

• Published in the United States as ——— (1974a). Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology: Sutton Hoo and Other Discoveries. New York: Harper's Magazine Press. LCCN 73-13220. SBN 06-120480-3.

• ———, ed. (1975). Recent Archaeological Excavations in Europe. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 0-7100-7963-X.
• ——— (1975). The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, Volume 1: Excavations, Background, the Ship, Dating and Inventory. London: British Museum Publications. ISBN 0-7141-1334-4.

• ——— (1978a). The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, Volume 2: Arms, Armour and Regalia. London: British Museum Publications. ISBN 0-7141-1335-2.
• ——— (1983a). The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, Volume 3: Late Roman and Byzantine silver, hanging-bowls, drinking vessels, cauldrons and other containers, textiles, the lyre, pottery bottle and other items. Vol. I. London: British Museum Publications. ISBN 0-7141-0529-5.
• ——— (1983b). The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, Volume 3: Late Roman and Byzantine silver, hanging-bowls, drinking vessels, cauldrons and other containers, textiles, the lyre, pottery bottle and other items. Vol. II. London: British Museum Publications. ISBN 0-7141-0530-9.

• ——— (1979). The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial: Reflections after thirty years. University of York Medieval Monograph Series. Vol. 2. York: William Sessions. ISBN 0-900657-46-4.
• ——— (1997). Taylor, Robin J. (ed.). Mawgan Porth: A settlement of the late Saxon period on the north Cornish coast: Excavations 1949–52, 1954 and 1974. London: English Heritage. doi:10.5284/1028203. ISBN 978-1-848-02186-0.
• ——— & Raven, Sheila (2005). A Corpus of Late Celtic Hanging-Bowls with an Account of the Bowls Found in Scandinavia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-813410-7.

Articles

• Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (July 1938). "A Hoard of Neolithic Axes from Peaslake, Surrey". The Antiquaries Journal. XIII (3). Society of Antiquaries of London: 279–284. doi:10.1017/S0003581500094737. S2CID 164198113.

• Correction issued in "The Peaslake Hoard". The Antiquaries Journal. XIX (1). Society of Antiquaries of London: 94. January 1939. doi:10.1017/S0003581500094907. S2CID 163195581.

• ——— (June 1939). "Two Medieval Pottery Vessels". The British Museum Quarterly. XIII (2). British Museum: 35–38. doi:10.2307/4422140. JSTOR 4422140.
• ——— (1939). "The Archaeology of the Site of the Bodleian Extension in Broad Street, Oxford" (PDF). Oxoniensia. IV. Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society: 89–146. ISSN 0308-5562.
• ——— (July 1939). "Anglo-Saxon Brooch and Pot from Brixworth, Northants". The Antiquaries Journal. XIX (3). Society of Antiquaries of London: 325–326. doi:10.1017/S0003581500095081. S2CID 164096144.
• Skinner, F. G. & Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (January 1940). "A Celtic Balance-beam of the Christian Period". The Antiquaries Journal. XX (1). Society of Antiquaries of London: 87–102. doi:10.1017/S0003581500045595. S2CID 162218406.
• Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (January 1940a). "Medieval tripod pitchers". The Antiquaries Journal. XX (1). Society of Antiquaries of London: 103–112. doi:10.1017/S0003581500045613. S2CID 162835240.
• ——— (1940b). "The Excavations at Seacourt, Berks, 1939: an interim report" (PDF). Oxoniensia. V. Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society: 31–41. ISSN 0308-5562.
• ——— & Jope, E. M. (1940). "Eleventh and Twelfth Century Pottery from the Oxford Region" (PDF). Oxoniensia. V. Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society: 42–49. ISSN 0308-5562.
• ——— (September 1946). "Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial". East Anglian Magazine. 6 (1): 2–9, 43.
• Myres, J. N. L.; Hawkes, C. F. C.; Bruce-Mitford, Rupert; Hill, J. W. F. & Radford, C. A. Ralegh (1946). "The Archaeology of Lincolnshire and Lincoln: Anglian and Anglo-Danish Lincolnshire" (PDF). The Archaeological Journal. CIII. London: The Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland: 85–101. doi:10.1080/00665983.1946.10853806.
• Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (January 1947b). "Swedish Museums and the Public". The Museums Journal. 46 (10). London: The Museums Association: 188–194.
• ——— (June 1947). "Anglo-American Museums Officers Visit to Finland (September–October, 1946)". The Museums Journal. 47 (3). London: The Museums Association: 41–51.
• ——— (1948). "Saxon Rendlesham: Some preliminary considerations" (PDF). Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. XXIV (3). Ipswich: 228–251.

• Edited and republished in Bruce-Mitford 1974a, ch. 2

• ——— (1948). "Sutton Hoo och Sverige". Ord och Bild. 57: 97–104.
• ——— (May 1948). "Sutton Hoo and Sweden". The Archaeological News Letter. 1 (2). Linden Publicity: 5–7.
• Lindqvist, Sune (September 1948). "Sutton Hoo and Beowulf". Antiquity. XXII (87). Translated by Bruce-Mitford, Rupert: 131–140. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00019669. S2CID 164075295.
• Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (October 1948). "Medieval Archaeology". The Archaeological News Letter. 1 (6). Linden Publicity: 1–4.
• ——— (November–December 1948). "The Sutton Hoo Ship-burial". The Norseman. VI (6): 394–400. OCLC 1760471.
• ——— (1949). "The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial: Recent theories and some comments on general interpretation" (PDF). Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. XXV (1). Ipswich: 1–78.

• Summarised, with Bruce-Mitford's input, in Crawford, O. G. S. (March 1952). "Sutton Hoo? a Summary". Antiquity. XXVI (101): 4–8. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00021232. S2CID 246041741.
• Edited and republished in Bruce-Mitford 1974a, ch. 1

• Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (1950). "The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial". Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. XXXIV (III). The Royal Institution of Great Britain: 440–449.
• ——— & Hill, George Francis (January–April 1950). "A note by Sir George Hill on the Sutton Hoo Treasure Trove Inquest". The Antiquaries Journal. XXX (1–2). Society of Antiquaries of London: 67–68. doi:10.1017/S0003581500088193. S2CID 163275205.
• ——— (March 1950). "The Problem of the Sutton Hoo Cenotaph". The Archaeological News Letter. 2 (10). Linden Publicity: 166–169.
• ——— (4 March 1950). "The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial". Nature. CLXV (4192). Nature Publishing Group: 339–341. Bibcode:1950Natur.165..339B. doi:10.1038/165339a0.
• ——— (April 1950). "The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial: A New Chapter in Anglo-Swedish Relations". The Anglo-Swedish Review. London: The Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the United Kingdom: 69–72.
• ——— (October–November 1950). "3rd International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Zurich, August 14th to 19th, 1950". The Archaeological News Letter. 3 (5). Linden Publicity: 78–79.
• ——— (1951). "Anglo-Saxon Suffolk" (PDF). The Archaeological Journal. CVIII. Royal Archaeological Institute: 132–133.
• ——— (1951). "A Late-Medieval Chalk-Mine at Thetford" (PDF). Norfolk Archaeology. XXX (III). Norwich: Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society: 220–222.
• ——— (January–April 1951). "A Saxon jewelled circular brooch from Long Bennington, Lincs". The Antiquaries Journal. XXXI (1–2). Society of Antiquaries of London: 67–68. doi:10.1017/S0003581500058005. S2CID 163358427.
• ——— (March 1951). "The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial". The American-Scandinavian Review. XXXIX (1). Princeton, New Jersey: The American-Scandinavian Foundation: 27–32.
• ——— (April 1951). "The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial". Scientific American. 184 (4): 24–30. Bibcode:1951SciAm.184d..24B. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0451-24. JSTOR 24945139. S2CID 45498190.
• ——— (1952). "An Anglo-Saxon Gold Pendant from High Wycombe, Bucks". The British Museum Quarterly. XV. British Museum: 72. doi:10.2307/4422266. JSTOR 4422266.
• ——— (1952). "The Castle Eden Vase". The British Museum Quarterly. XV. British Museum: 73. doi:10.2307/4422267. JSTOR 4422267.
• ——— (1952). "A Late Saxon Disk-Brooch and Sword Pommel". The British Museum Quarterly. XV. British Museum: 74–75. doi:10.2307/4422268. JSTOR 4422268.
• ——— (1952). "Other Dark-Age Acquisitions". The British Museum Quarterly. XV. British Museum: 75–76. doi:10.2307/4422395. JSTOR 4422269.
• ——— (1952). "A Medieval Polychrome Pottery Aquamanile from Stonar, Kent". The British Museum Quarterly. XV. British Museum: 80–81. doi:10.2307/4422275. JSTOR 4422275.
• ——— & King, William (1952). "Medieval Pottery, Tiles, and Glass". The British Museum Quarterly. XV. British Museum: 81–82. doi:10.2307/4422276. JSTOR 4422276.
• ——— (June 1952). "A Late-Saxon Silver Disk-Brooch from the Isle of Ely". The British Museum Quarterly. XVII (1). British Museum: 15–16. doi:10.2307/4422367. JSTOR 4422367.
• ——— & Allan, John (June 1952). "Sutton Hoo—A Rejoinder: With a Note on the Coins". Antiquity. XXVI (102): 76–82. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00023619. S2CID 163980192.
• ——— (December 1952). "The Fuller Brooch". The British Museum Quarterly. XVII (4). British Museum: 75–76. doi:10.2307/4422395. JSTOR 4422395.
• ——— (1952). "The Snape Boat-Grave" (PDF). Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. XXVI (1). Ipswich: 1–26.

• Edited and republished in Bruce-Mitford 1974a, ch. 3

• ——— (1952–1953). "A Bronze Strap-end of c. A. D. 900 from Souldern, Oxon" (PDF). Oxoniensia. XVII–XVIII. Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society: 236. ISSN 0308-5562.
• ——— (January 1954). "A Late- or Sub-Roman Buckle-Plate from College Wood, near Winchester". The Antiquaries Journal. XXXIV (1–2). Society of Antiquaries of London: 75–76. doi:10.1017/S0003581500073224. S2CID 163239398.
• Tonnochy, A. B.; Brailsford, J. W.; Bruce-Mitford, Rupert & King, William (June 1954). "British and Medieval Antiquities, 1753–1953". The British Museum Quarterly. XIX (1). British Museum: 18–27. doi:10.2307/4422462. JSTOR 4422462.
• Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (1955). "Gold and Silver Cloisonné Buckle from Wynaldum, Friesland". Verslag van het Fries Genootschap van Geschied-, Oudheid- en Taalkunde. 126. Leeuwarden: Friesch Genootschap van Geschied-, Oudheid- en Taalkunde: 16–17. OCLC 73136678.

• Edited and republished in Bruce-Mitford 1974a, pp. 270–273

• ——— (1955). "Recent Studies of Late Saxon Metalwork". Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society. LXV. Manchester: Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society: 134–135.
• ——— (October 1955). "Edward Thurlow Leeds". Obituary. The Museums Journal. 55 (7). London: The Museums Association: 189–190.
• ——— (1956). "The Benty Grange Helmet". Annual Report for the Year Ending 31st March 1956. Sheffield: Sheffield City Museum. pp. 13–15. OCLC 694999446.
• ——— (January 1956). "National Museums and Local Material". The Museums Journal. 55 (10). London: The Museums Association: 251–258.
• ——— (July 1957). "A Medieval Polychrome Jug from the City of London". The British Museum Quarterly. XXI (2). British Museum: 54–55. doi:10.2307/4422573. JSTOR 4422573.
• Andrew O'Dell, Andrew; Bruce-Mitford, Rupert; Stevenson, Robert B. K.; Plenderleith, Harold James & Brown, Thomas Julian (December 1959). "The St Ninian's Isle Silver Hoard". Antiquity. XXXIII (132): 257–268. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00027654. S2CID 163046639.
• Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (November 1960). "The Treasure of St. Ninian's". Scientific American. 203 (5): 154–166. Bibcode:1960SciAm.203e.154B. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1160-154. JSTOR 24940701.
• ——— (June 1961). "The Book of Kells Exhibition". Museums Journal. 61 (1). London: The Museums Association: 7–20.
• ——— (1963). "The Early Gospel-Book in the British Isles, with Special Reference to the Gospels of St. Chad". Annual Report. 30. Llandaff, Wales: Friends of Llandaff Cathedral: 16–19. OCLC 896111779.
• ——— (1964). "Excavations at Sutton Hoo in 1938" (PDF). Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. XXX (1). Ipswich: 1–43.
• ——— (1964a). "A National Reference Collection of Medieval Pottery" (PDF). Medieval Archaeology. 8. London: The Society for Medieval Archaeology: 229–230. doi:10.5284/1000320.
• ——— (September 1964). "A Hiberno-Saxon Bronze Mounting from Markyate, Hertfordshire". Antiquity. XXXVIII (151): 219–220. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00105095.
• ——— (December 1964c). "National Reference Collection of Medieval Pottery". Antiquity. XXXVIII (152): 303–304. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00108270. S2CID 246047709.
• ——— (February 1965). "Sutton Hoo and Sweden". The Anglo-Swedish Review (1). London: The Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the United Kingdom: 20–22.
• ——— (Summer 1965). "The Lindisfarne Gospels in the Middle Ages and Later". The British Museum Quarterly. XXIX (3–4). British Museum: 98–100. doi:10.2307/4422900. JSTOR 4422900.
• ——— (September 1966). "Archaeology: A National Museum Viewpoint". The Relationship of National and Provincial Museums. Museums Journal. 66 (2). London: The Museums Association: 99–106.
• ——— (1967). "A New Wooden Ship's Figure-Head Found in the Scheldt, at Moerzeke-Mariekerke". Miscellanea. Acta Archaeologica. XXXVIII: 199–209. ISSN 0065-101X.

• Edited and republished in Bruce-Mitford 1974a, ch. 6

• ——— (4 November 1967). "Sutton Hoo Revisited". Archaeological Section No 2277. Illustrated London News. No. 6692. London. pp. 26–27.
• ——— (March 1968). "Sutton Hoo". Gypsum Journal (47). London: The Gypsum Plasterboard Development Association: 11–14. OCLC 21731710.
• ——— (March 1968). "Sutton Hoo Excavations, 1965–7". Antiquity. XLII (165): 36–39. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00033810. S2CID 163655331.

• Edited and republished in Bruce-Mitford 1974a, ch. 5

• ——— (December 1968). "Fresh observations on the Torslunda Plates". Frühmittelalterliche Studien. 2. Münster: 233–236. doi:10.1515/9783110242027.233. S2CID 185602132.

• Edited and republished in Bruce-Mitford 1974a, ch. 10

• ——— (1969). "The Art of the Codex Amiatinus: Jarrow Lecture 1967". Journal of the British Archaeological Association. XXXII: 1–25. doi:10.1080/00681288.1969.11894883.

• Also published as a hardcover offprint. See OCLC 926900345, 7214133300

• ——— (1969). "The Ruined Church of Stone-by-Faversham: Appendix III, The Amber Pendant". The Antiquaries Journal. XLIX (2). Society of Antiquaries of London: 292–293. doi:10.1017/S0003581500053798. S2CID 161808688.
• ——— & Bruce-Mitford, Myrtle (March 1970). "The Sutton Hoo Lyre, Beowulf, and the Origins of the Frame Harp". Antiquity. XLIV (173): 7–13. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00040916.

• Edited and republished in Bruce-Mitford 1974a, ch. 7

• ——— (June 1970). "Ships' Figure-heads in the Migration Period and Early Middle Ages". Antiquity. XLIV (174): 146–148. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00104764. S2CID 163282907.

• Edited and republished in Bruce-Mitford 1974a, ch. 6

• ——— (Spring 1971). "Envoi". The British Museum Quarterly. XXXV (1–4). British Museum: 8–16. doi:10.2307/4423066. JSTOR 4423066.
• ——— (Autumn 1972). "The Sutton Hoo Helmet: A New Reconstruction". The British Museum Quarterly. XXXVI (3–4). British Museum: 120–130. doi:10.2307/4423116. JSTOR 4423116.

• Edited and republished in Bruce-Mitford 1974a, ch. 8

• ——— (February 1973). "Sutton Hoo drinking horns". The British Museum Society Bulletin (12): 20.
• ——— (1974b). "Exhibits at Ballots: 5. A replica of the Sutton Hoo helmet made in the Tower Armouries, 1973". The Antiquaries Journal. LIV (2): 285–286. doi:10.1017/S0003581500042529. S2CID 246055329.
• ——— (1974c). "Exhibits at Ballots: 6. Anglo-Saxon gold sword mount from Maidstone, Kent". The Antiquaries Journal. LIV (2): 286. doi:10.1017/S0003581500042529. S2CID 246055329.
• ——— (February 1974d). "The Sutton Hoo Helmet". The British Museum Society Bulletin (15): 6–7.
  • Edited and republished in Bruce-Mitford 1974b
• ——— (March 1975). "New Galleries for Medieval and Later Antiquities". The British Museum Society Bulletin (18): 6–7.
• ——— (1977). "Obituary: Basil Brown" (PDF). Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. XXXIV (1). Ipswich: 71.
• ——— (January 1978b). "The Archaeologist". Antique Collector. 49 (1). London: National Magazine Company LTD.: 68–69.
• ——— (1980). "Obituary: Leslie Dow, F.S.A" (PDF). Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. XXXIV (4). Ipswich: 287–288.
• ——— (December 1982). "The Sutton Hoo Helmet-Reconstruction and the Design of the Royal Harness and Sword-Belt: A Reply to Hofrat Dr. Ortwin Gamber with some additional comments on the Sutton Hoo Arms and Armour". The Journal of the Arms & Armour Society. X (6). London: 217–274. ISSN 0004-2439.
  • Response to: Gamber, Ortwin (December 1982). "Some Notes on the Sutton Hoo Military Equipment". The Journal of the Arms & Armour Society. X (6). London: 208–216. ISSN 0004-2439.
• Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (1989a). "Early Thoughts on Sutton Hoo" (PDF). Saxon (10).
• ——— (1989b). Anglo-Saxon and Mediaeval Archaeology, History and Art, with special reference to Sutton Hoo: The highly important Working Library and Archive of more than 6,000 titles formed by Dr. Rupert L.S. Bruce-Mitford FBA, D.Litt., FSA. Wickmere: Merrion Book Co. OCLC 858531182.
  • Includes prefatory essays My Japanese Background and Forty Years with Sutton Hoo by Bruce-Mitford.

Chapters

• Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (1952). "The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial". In Hodgkin, Robert Howard (ed.). A History of the Anglo-Saxons. Vol. II (3rd ed.). London: Oxford University Press. pp. 696–734, 750–756.

• Footnote 21 edited and republished in Bruce-Mitford 1974a, ch. 9

• ——— (1953). "Some recent results of the application of laboratory technique to antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon period in Britain". In Vogt, Emil (ed.). Actes de la III^e session: Zurich, 1950. Zurich: Congrès International des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques. pp. 321–323. OCLC 797756211.
• ——— (1954). "Preface". In Lasko, Peter (ed.). Catalogue of an Exhibition of Ivory Carvings Lent by the City of Liverpool Public Museums, Mostly from the Mayer-Fejervary Collection. London: Trustees of the British Museum. p. 3. OCLC 30175308.
• ———, ed. (1956). Recent Archaeological Excavations in Britain: Selected Excavations 1939–1955 with a Chapter on Recent Air-Reconnaissance. New York: Macmillan.
  • Contains ——— (1956). "A Dark-Age Settlement at Mawgan Porth, Cornwall". In Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (ed.). Recent Archaeological Excavations in Britain: Selected Excavations 1939–1955 with a Chapter on Recent Air-Reconnaissance. New York: Macmillan. pp. 167–196.
    • Briefly summarised in Griffiths, W. E. (May 1955). "The Second Viking Congress". The Archaeological News Letter. 5 (1). Linden Publicity: 17–19.
  • Contains ——— (1956). "Treasure Trove: A Note on Law and Practice". In Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (ed.). Recent Archaeological Excavations in Britain: Selected Excavations 1939–1955 with a Chapter on Recent Air-Reconnaissance. New York: Macmillan. pp. 297–301.
• ——— & Harden, Donald Benjamin (1956). "Edward Thurlow Leeds: 1877–1955". In Harden, Donald Benjamin (ed.). Dark-Age Britain: Studies presented to E. T. Leeds with a bibliography of his works. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. pp. ix–xvi.
• ——— (1956). "Late Saxon Disc-Brooches". In Harden, Donald Benjamin (ed.). Dark-Age Britain: Studies presented to E. T. Leeds with a bibliography of his works. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. pp. 171–201.

• Republished in part in Bruce-Mitford 1964b, app'x B
• Edited and republished in Bruce-Mitford 1974a, ch. 15

• ——— (1956). "The Pectoral Cross". In Battiscombe, Christopher Francis (ed.). The Relics of Saint Cuthbert. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 308–325, 542–544.
• ——— (1964). "Preface & Appendix B: Iconography of the Fuller Brooch". In Wilson, David M. (ed.). Anglo-Saxon Ornamental Metalwork 700–1100. Catalogue of Antiquities of the Later Saxon Period. Vol. I. London: The Trustees of the British Museum. pp. v, 91–98. OCLC 886634250.
• ——— (1967). "The Reception by the Anglo-Saxons of Mediterranean Art Following their Conversion from Ireland to Rome". La conversione al Cristianesimo nell'Europa dell'Alto Medioevo: 14–19 aprile 1966. Settimane di studio del Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo. Vol. 14. Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo. pp. 797–825.
• ——— (1967). "The Lindisfarne Gospels". Great Books of Ireland: Thomas Davis Lectures. Dublin: Clonmore & Reynolds Ltd. pp. 26–37. OCLC 20194.
• ——— (1970). "Preface". In Grohskopf, Bernice (ed.). The Treasure of Sutton Hoo. New York: Atheneum. pp. vii–x. LCCN 74-86555.
• ——— (1971). "Medieval and Later Antiquities". In Francis, Frank (ed.). Treasures of the British Museum. London: Thames & Hudson. pp. 179–209. ISBN 0-500-18125-X.
• ——— (1971). "Sutton Hoo and the Background to the Poem". In Girvan, Ritchie (ed.). Beowulf and the Seventh Century: Language and Content (2nd ed.). London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. pp. 85–98.

• Edited and republished in Bruce-Mitford 1974a, ch. 12

• ——— (1972). "The Dating of the Sutton Hoo Coins: Some Comments". In Hall, E. T. & Metcalf, David Michael (eds.). Methods of Chemical and Metallurgical Investigation of Ancient Coinage: A Symposium Held by the Royal Numismatic Society at Burlington House, London on 9-11 December 1970. Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication. Vol. 8. London: Royal Numismatic Society. pp. 108–109. OCLC 962994865.
• ——— (1976). "The Chapter House Vestibule Graves at Lincoln and the Body of St. Hugh of Avalon". In Emmison, Frederick & Stephens, Roy (eds.). Tribute to an Antiquary: Essays presented to Marc Fitch by some of his friends. London: Leopard's Head Press. pp. 127–140. ISBN 0-904920-00-3.
• ——— (1976). "Excavation at the Sutton Hoo Site, England, 1969". In Oehser, Paul Henry (ed.). Abstracts and reviews of research and exploration authorized under grants from the National Geographic Society during the year 1968. National Geographic Society Research Reports. Vol. 9. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society. pp. 49–52. LCCN 68-26794. SBN 87044-136-1.
• ——— (1978). "A Comparison Between the Sutton Hoo Burial Deposit and Childeric's Treasure". Actes du Colloque International d'Archéologie, Rouen 3-4-5 Juillet 1975: La Période Mérovingienne. Vol. III. Rouen: Musée départemental des antiquités de Seine-Maritime. pp. 365–372. OCLC 633625288.
• ——— (1978). "La Matériel archéologique de la sépulture royale de Sutton Hoo (Grand-Bretagne, Suffolk): dernier bilan des recherches" [The archaeological material of the royal burial of Sutton Hoo (Great Britain, Suffolk): latest research report]. In Fleury, Michel & Périn, Patrick (eds.). Problèmes de chronologie relative et absolue concernant les cimetières mérovingiens d'entre Loire et Rhin: Actes du II^e colloque archéologique de la IV^e Section de l'Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris, 1973) [Problems of relative and absolute chronology concerning the Merovingian cemeteries between Loire and Rhine: Proceedings of the 2nd archaeological colloquium of the 4th Section of the École pratique des hautes études (Paris, 1973)]. Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des hautes études: IV^e Section — Sciences historiques et philologiques (in French). Vol. 326. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion. pp. 13–17. OCLC 932310155.
• ——— & Wilson, David M. (1979). "Die Angelsachsen" [The Anglo-Saxons]. In Roth, Helmut (ed.). Kunst der Völkerwanderungszeit [Art of the Migration Period]. Propyläen Kunstgeschichte: Supplementbänd (in German). Vol. IV. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag. pp. 206–222. OCLC 1078702695.
• ——— (1986). "The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial: Some Foreign Connections". Angli e Sassoni al di qua e al di là del mare: 26 aprile-lo maggio 1984. Settimane di studio del Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo. Vol. XXXII. Spoleto: Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo. pp. 171–210.
• ——— (1987). "Ireland and the Hanging Bowls—A Review". In Ryan, Michael (ed.). Ireland and Insular Art, A.D. 500–1200: Proceedings of a Conference at University College Cork, 31 October-3 November 1985. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 30–39. ISBN 0-901714-54-2.
• ——— (1989). "The Durham-Echternach Calligrapher". In Bonner, Gerald; Rollason, David & Stancliffe, Clare (eds.). St Cuthbert, His Cult and His Community to AD 1200. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press. pp. 175–188. ISBN 0-85115-510-3. LCCN 88-16805.
• ——— (1991). "Thomas Downing Kendrick: 1895–1979" (PDF). Lectures and Memoirs. Proceedings of the British Academy. Vol. 76. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 445–471. ISBN 0-19-726107-8. ISSN 0068-1202.

Reviews

• Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (1945). "Review of London Museum Catalogues, No. 7: Medieval Catalogue" (PDF). The Archaeological Journal. CII. London: The Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland: 173–174. doi:10.5284/1018054.
• ——— (November 1948). "Review of Medieval English Pottery, by Bernard Rackham". The Archaeological News Letter. 1 (7). Linden Publicity: 7.
• ——— (June 1949). "Review of Essai sur les Origines de la Miniature Dite Irlandaise, by François Masai". New Books Reviewed. The Connoisseur. CXXIII (512): 126. ISSN 0010-6275.
• ——— (August 1949). "Review of Late Saxon and Viking Art, by T. D. Kendrick". The Archaeological News Letter. 2 (4). Linden Publicity: 61–62.
• ——— (January–April 1950). "Review of Nubian Treasure, by Walter B. Emery". The Antiquaries Journal. XXX (1–2). Society of Antiquaries of London: 76–80. doi:10.1017/S0003581500088259. S2CID 163791671.
• ——— (September 1950). "Review of Merowingerzeit, by Gustav Behrens". Antiquity. XXIV (95): 163–164. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00023243. S2CID 162972699.

• Republished in ——— (June 1951). "Review of Merowingerzeit, by Gustav Behrens". Antiquity. XXV (98): 107–108. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00021001.

• ——— (December 1950). "Review of Culture in Early Anglo-Saxon England, by D. Elizabeth Martin-Clarke". Antiquity. XXIV (96): 211–212. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00023462. S2CID 163141521.
• ——— (August 1951). "Review of The Coffin of Saint Cuthbert, by Donald McIntyre". The Burlington Magazine. XCIII (581): 274. JSTOR 870757.
• ——— (29 May 1952). "Review of Pre-Conquest England and Byzantium, by David Talbot Rice". Summer Books. The Listener. Vol. XLVII, no. 1213. London: The British Broadcasting Corporation. p. 879.
• ——— (14 May 1954). "Boats of the North". History. The Times Literary Supplement. No. 2728. London. p. 314.
• ——— (July–October 1954). "Review of Der Tassilokelch, by Gunther Haseloff". The Antiquaries Journal. XXXIV (3–4). Society of Antiquaries of London: 245–246. doi:10.1017/S0003581500060042. S2CID 162310675.
• ——— (July–October 1954). "Review of Die langobardischen Fibeln aus Italien, by Siegfried Fuchs and Joachim Werner". The Antiquaries Journal. XXXIV (3–4). Society of Antiquaries of London: 246–247. doi:10.1017/S0003581500060054. S2CID 163720738.
• ——— (July–October 1954). "Review of Das Alamannische Gräberfeld von Bülach, by Joachim Werner". The Antiquaries Journal. XXXIV (3–4). Society of Antiquaries of London: 247. doi:10.1017/S0003581500060066. S2CID 162670894.
• ——— (December 1954). "Review of The English Windmill, by Rex Wailes". The Archaeological News Letter. 5 (7). Linden Publicity: 128.
• ——— (January–April 1956). "Review of Oreficerie Langobarde a Parma, by Giorgio Monaco". The Antiquaries Journal. XXXVI (1–2). Society of Antiquaries of London: 99–100. doi:10.1017/S0003581500060595. S2CID 162256332.
• ——— (January–April 1957). "Review of Fynske Jernaldergrave II: Ældre romersk jernalder, by Erling Albrechtsen". The Antiquaries Journal. XXXVII (1–2). Society of Antiquaries of London: 79–80. doi:10.1017/S0003581500077441. S2CID 162911783.
• ——— (1958). "Review of Early Christian Ireland, by Máire and Liam de Paor" (PDF). Medieval Archaeology. 2. London: The Society for Medieval Archaeology: 214–217. doi:10.5284/1000320.
• ——— (September 1959). "Review of The Beginnings of Christian Art, by David Talbot Rice". Antiquity. XXXIII (131): 226–227. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00027551. S2CID 163981765.
• ——— (1962). "Review of The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England: Its Archaeology and Literature, by Hilda Ellis Davidson" (PDF). The Archaeological Journal. CXIX. London: The Royal Archaeological Institute: 367. doi:10.5284/1018054.
• ——— (1962). "Review of Excavations at Helgö, I: Report for 1954–1956, edited by Wilhelm Holmqvist in collaboration with Birgit Arrhenius and Per Lundström". The Antiquaries Journal. XLII (1). Society of Antiquaries of London: 99–100. doi:10.1017/S000358150002415X.
• ——— (June 1962). "Review of Archäologische Denkmäler der Gepiden im Mitteldonaubecken (454–568 u. Z.), by Dezsö Csallány". Museums Journal. 62 (1). London: The Museums Association: 354–355.
• ——— (1962–1963). "Review of Ladby-Skibet, by Knud Thorvildsen" (PDF). Medieval Archaeology. 6–7. Society for Medieval Archaeology: 353–356. doi:10.5284/1000320.
• ——— (22 February 1963). "The Third Great Codex: The Book of Durrow's Place in the Celtic World". The Times Literary Supplement. No. 3182. London. p. 143.
• ——— (1965). "Review of The Fifth Century Invasions South of the Thames, by Vera Evison". The Archaeological Journal. CXXII. London: The Royal Archaeological Institute: 247–249. doi:10.1080/00665983.1965.11077377.
• ——— (1967). "Review of Three Viking Graves in the Isle of Man, by Gerhard Bersu and David M. Wilson" (PDF). Medieval Archaeology. 11. Society for Medieval Archaeology: 332–334. doi:10.5284/1000320.
• ——— (28 May 1971). "Topographical Past". History. The Times Literary Supplement. No. 3613. London. p. 612.
• ——— (August 1971). "Review of Early Celtic Art, by Paul Jacobstahl". The Burlington Magazine. CXIII (821): 478. JSTOR 876721.
• ——— (1975). "Review of Britain before the Norman Conquest". The Antiquaries Journal. LV (1). Society of Antiquaries of London: 155. doi:10.1017/S0003581500035733. S2CID 162394640.
• ——— (1985). "Review of Vendel Period Studies: Transactions of the Boat-grave Symposium, Stockholm, 1981, edited by Jan Peder Lamm and Hans-Åke Nordström" (PDF). Medieval Archaeology. 29. Society for Medieval Archaeology: 231–233. doi:10.1080/00766097.1985.11735471.
• ——— (4 January 1985). "The Age of the Cross". Art History. The Times Literary Supplement. No. 4266. London. p. 21.
• ——— (1986). "Review of Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Sculpture in England, Vol. I: County Durham and Northumberland, by Rosemary Cramp". The Antiquaries Journal. LXVI (1). Society of Antiquaries of London: 179–181. doi:10.1017/S0003581500085000.
• ——— (1988). "Review of The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial, by Angela Care Evans". The Antiquaries Journal. LXVIII (2). Society of Antiquaries of London: 356–357. doi:10.1017/S0003581500069882. S2CID 163211667.
• ——— (1988). "Review of From Durrow to Kells: The Insular Gospel-Books 650–800, by George Henderson". The Antiquaries Journal. LXVIII (2). Society of Antiquaries of London: 359–360. doi:10.1017/S0003581500069912. S2CID 161482786.
• ——— (11 November 1988). "The Sign of the Cross". Archaeology. The Times Literary Supplement. No. 4467. London. p. 1256.
• ——— (1993). "Review of The Origins of Beowulf and the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia, by Sam Newton". The Antiquaries Journal. LXXIII. Society of Antiquaries of London: 210–211. doi:10.1017/S0003581500071985. S2CID 164034442.

Other

• Sheppard, Thomas (February 1940). "Saxon Remains at Barton, Part II". The Naturalist (997). London: A. Brown & Sons, Ltd.: 37–47.

• Contains (at pp. 40–42) letter by Bruce-Mitford on weights and scales excavated at Barton-upon-Humber. Part I of the article published at Sheppard, Thomas (October 1939). "Saxon Relics from Barton, Lincs". The Naturalist (993). London: A. Brown & Sons, Ltd.: 257–262.

• "The Sutton Hoo Musical Instrument". Reports of Meetings. The Archaeological News Letter. 1 (1). London: Linden Publicity: 11–13. April 1948.

• Summary of lecture given by Bruce-Mitford to the Society of Antiquaries of London on 26 February 1948.

• Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (May 1949). "The Alfred Jewel". Letters to the Editor. The Museums Journal. 49 (2). London: The Museums Association: 47–48.
• ——— (1950). "Gold and Silver Work: Early Christian". Chambers's Encyclopædia. Vol. VI. London: George Newnes Limited. pp. 418–419.
• ——— (1950). "Jewellery: Dark Ages". Chambers's Encyclopædia. Vol. VIII. London: George Newnes Limited. pp. 87–89.
• ——— (October 1951). "Archaeology in Cornwall". Letters. The Archaeological News Letter. 4 (3). London: Linden Publicity: 43.
• ——— (1955). "Sutton Hoo Ship Burial". The Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. 26. New York: Americana Corporation. p. 104. LCCN 55-5910.

• Republished in subsequent editions, such as ——— (1956). "Sutton Hoo Ship Burial". The Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. XXVI. New York: Americana Corporation. pp. 104–104b. LCCN 56-5839, and ——— (1970). "Sutton Hoo Ship Burial". The Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. 26. New York: Americana Corporation. pp. 103–104b. LCCN 72-97500. SBN 7172-0101-5.

• ——— (September 1955). "Points from Correspondence". The South African Archaeological Bulletin. X (39). Claremont, Cape Town: The South African Archaeological Society: 104. doi:10.2307/3887567. JSTOR 3887567.
• ——— (1956). "Preface to Second Edition". In Watson, William (ed.). Flint Implements: An Account of Stone Age Techniques and Cultures. London: The Trustees of the British Museum. p. v.

• ——— (1968). "Preface to Third Edition". In Watson, William (ed.). Flint Implements: An Account of Stone Age Techniques and Cultures. London: The Trustees of the British Museum. p. 6. ISBN 0-7141-1306-9.

• ——— (June 1956). "The Woman in Grey". Under the Dome. 15 (6). London: British Museum: 2–4. OCLC 561848219.

• Short ghost story.

• ——— (1958). "Anglo-Sassoni e Irlandesi Centri e Tradizioni". Enciclopedia Universale dell'Arte (in Italian). Vol. I. Venice: Istituto per la Collaborazione Culturale. col. 408–425, pl. 248–265.

• Translated and republished as ——— (1959). "Anglo-Saxon and Irish Art". Encyclopedia of World Art. Vol. I. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. col. 446–463, pl. 274–291.

• ——— (1961). "Revival of Roman influences in the 7th and 8th centuries in Anglo-Saxon Archaeology". In Bersu, Gerhard & Dehn, Wolfgang (eds.). Bericht über den V. Internationalen Kongress für Vor- und Frühgeschichte Hamburg vom 24. bis 30. August, 1958. Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann. p. 158. OCLC 1046238019.
• ——— (19 July 1963). "Mr. A. B. Tonnochy". Obituary. The Times. No. 55757. London. p. 14.
• ——— (23 July 1965). "Mr. Herbert Maryon". Obituary. The Times. No. 56381. London. p. 14.
• ——— & Jenkins, Gilbert Kenneth (29 November 1966). "Treasure Trove". Letters to the Editor. The Times. No. 56801. London. p. 11.
• ——— (1967). "Anglo-Saxon Ship-burials". The Twentieth Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts. p. 33.
• ——— (1967). "Celtic Art". New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. III. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. pp. 382–383. LCCN 66-22292.

• LCCN incorrectly printed as LCCN 80--84291.

• ——— (1967). "Durrow, Book of". New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. IV. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. pp. 1123–1124. LCCN 66-22292.

• ——— (2003). "Durrow, Book of". New Catholic Encyclopedia: Com-Dyn. New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4 (2nd ed.). Detroit: Thomson Gale. pp. 953–954. ISBN 0-7876-4008-5.

• ——— (1967). "Irish Art". New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. VII. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. pp. 633–666. LCCN 66-22292.
• ——— (1967). "Irish Crosses". New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. VII. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. pp. 644–645. LCCN 66-22292.

• ——— (2003). "Irish Crosses". New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 7 (2nd ed.). Detroit: Thomson Gale. pp. 583–584. ISBN 0-7876-4011-5.

• ——— (1967). "Kells, Book of". New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. VIII. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. pp. 145–146. LCCN 66-22292.

• ——— (2003). "Kells, Book of". New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8 (2nd ed.). Detroit: Thomson Gale. pp. 138–139. ISBN 0-7876-4012-3.

• ——— (1967). "Lindisfarne Gospels". New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. VIII. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. p. 771. LCCN 66-22292.

• ——— (2003). "Lindisfarne Gospels". New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8 (2nd ed.). Detroit: Thomson Gale. pp. 593–594. ISBN 0-7876-4012-3.

• ——— (1969). "Preface". In Zürn, Hartwig & Schiek, Siegwalt (eds.). Die Sammlung Edelmann im Britischen Museum zu London [The Edelmann Collection in the British Museum in London]. Urkunden zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte aus Südwürttemberg-Hohenzollern (in German). Vol. 3. Stuttgart: Verlag Müller & Gräff. p. 5. OCLC 17063707.
• ——— (2 February 1971). "Sutton Hoo Stag". Letters to the Editor. The Times. No. 58088. London. p. 15.
• ——— (27 July 1971). "Treasure Trove". Letters to the Editor. The Times. No. 58235. London. p. 20.
• ——— (23 March 1977). "Mr Basil Brown: Discovery of Sutton Hoo Ship". Obituary. The Times. No. 59959. London. p. 18.
• ——— (12 December 1979). "Mr Leslie Dow". Obituary. The Times. No. 60498. London. p. 16.

• Not attributed to Bruce-Mitford in The Times, but listed in Bruce-Mitford 1989b, p. 28 (#55).

• ——— (11 March 1980). "A Long Way Back in Tipperary". Letters to the Editor. The Times. No. 60572. London. p. 13.
• ——— (28 August 1989). "Ship or Tomb at Sutton Hoo?". Letters to the Editor. The Times. No. 63484. London. p. 11.
• Oddy, Andrew & Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (1 May 1992). "Nigel Reuben Rook Williams, 1944–1992: Two Tributes". Unpublished.

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