Archaeologist, Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities at the British Museum in the 1920s, and the author of several books.
Publications
Anglo-Saxon Remains, by Reginald A. Smith, B.A., F.S.A., published 1905 in The Victoria History of the County of Sussex (vol. 1: Natural History, Geology, pre-medieval Archaeology, the Domesday survey, and Political History, pp.333-350, , facsimile edition published 1973, London: Victoria County History, ISBN-10: 0712905855 & ISBN-13: 9780712905855) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2398] & The Keep [LIB/500089] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries View Online
On the date of Grime's Graves and Cissbury flint-mines, by Reginald A. Smith, published 1912 in Archaeologia; or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity (vol. 63, article, pp.109-158) View Online
Abstract:The formal recognition by the Monaco Congress (1906) of the Aurignac stage of culture marks a distinct advance in the classification of palaeolithic cave-relics. The point has been keenly debated, but most are now agreed that Aurignac, as a typical station, comes between Le Moustier and Solutré, and represents a civilization that extended over a large part of Europe. This stage has in recent years been so thoroughly studied that its distinctive types can be easily recognized, and many cave-deposits readily fall into this division; but so far very little of this sort has been noticed in England, where the industry seems, however, to have had a special and a splendid development.
Discoveries near Cissbury, by Garnet R. Wolseley and Reginald A. Smith, published October 1924 in The Antiquaries Journal (vol. 4 issue 4, article, pp.347-359) View Online
Abstract:Park Brow is a ridge of the South Downs, running roughly north and south. The southern end of the hill, upon which three early inhabited sites have been found, abuts on the valley from which rises the higher hill crowned by Cissbury camp. On Park Brow there is clear evidence of the presence of man in ancient days. Very many lynchets or steep banks are found, a sunken trackway runs along the southern crest of the hill, adjoining which, where it passes the Early Iron Age site, is seen an embanked pit; while over the greater part of this area, as well as in the adjoining valleys, fragments of ancient pottery, rough flint scrapers, and other implements, together with many flint flakes, can be picked up.
A Ground Axe of Igneous Rock, by Reginald A. Smith, published 1926 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 67, notes & queries, pp.217-218) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2152] & The Keep [LIB/500285] & S.A.S. library
Palaeolith found at West Bognor, by Reginald A. Smith, published 1929 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 70, notes & queries, pp.196-197) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2155] & The Keep [LIB/500359] & S.A.S. library