Charles William Phillips was a British archaeologist best known for leading the 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo burial ship, an intact collection of Anglo-Saxon grave-goods. In 1946, he replaced O. G. S. Crawford as the Archaeology Officer of the Ordnance Survey. He was awarded the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1967 for his contributions to the topography and mapping of Early Britain.
- Occupation
- anthropologist, archaeologist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- April 24, 1901
- Died
- September 23, 1985
