Charles William Phillips (24 April 1901 – 23 September 1985) 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, possibly that of the 7th century East Anglian king Raedwald.
He was awarded the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1967 for his contributions to the topography and mapping of Early Britain.
He was the spouse of Margaret Mann Phillips the Erasmus scholar.
Phillips, Charles W. (April 1940). "The Excavation of the Sutton Hoo Ship-burial". The Antiquaries Journal. Society of Antiquaries of London. XX (2): 149–202. doi:10.1017/S0003581500009677. Phillips, Charles W. (October 1940). "The Sutton Hoo Burial Ship". The Mariner's Mirror. Society for Nautical Research. XXVI (4): 345–355. Phillips, Charles W. (February 1941). "Ancestor of the British Navy". National Geographic. The National Geographic Society. LXXIX (2): 247–268. Phillips, Charles W. (October 1946). "The World from Sutton Hoo". The Geographical Magazine. Royal Geographical Society. XIX (6): 235–343. Phillips, Charles W. (1956). "The Excavation of the Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial". In Bruce-Mitford, Rupert. Recent Archaeological Excavations in Britain: Selected Excavations 1939–1955 with a Chapter on Recent Air-Reconnaissance. New York: Macmillan. pp. 145–166. Phillips, Charles W. (1970). "Forward". In Grohskopf, Bernice. The Treasure of Sutton Hoo. New York: Atheneum. pp. xi–xiv. Phillips, Charles W. (1987). My Life in Archaeology. Gloucester: Alan Sutton. ISBN 0-86299-362-8. 