Stanley Denys Trevor Spittle OBE, MA, FSA, (Cambridge 1920 – 7 December 2003) was an English archaeologist.
Spittle studied architecture at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and in 1935[1] became a member of the “Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum”.
Spittle was involved in the 1951 Samothrace Expedition of the New York University Institute of Fine Arts[2] which unearthed two ancient Greek structures - a hall for votive gifts of the sixth century B.C.
[4][5][6][7][8][9] He was Editor (in charge), Cambridge office, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, involved in studying the wall paintings at Pembroke College,[10] of the archaeological sites of Cambridgeshire,[11][12] the archaeological sites of Northamptonshire,[13][14][15][16][17][18] as well as the historic town of Stamford, Lincolnshire.
Highlights included a Byzantine Gospel, a Flemish Book of Hours, an Ottoman Koran and a Venetian copy of Cicero.