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Copies and offprints of published archaeological books and pamphlets by Cyril Fox (some in collaboration with others), most of them annotated by him, and including reviews and other related cuttings from the press and academic journals, as well as related photographs, offprints, and letters from archaeologists, historians and others involved in archaeological finds and reports. The works include: Offa's Dyke; Monmouthshire houses; Pattern and purpose: a survey of Early Celtic art in Britain; The personality of Britain: its influence on inhabitant and invader in prehistoric and early historic times; A country house of the Elizabethan period in Wales: Six Wells, Llantwit Major; A find of the early Iron Age from Llyn Cerrig Bach, Anglesey; Ancient monuments: South Wales; and Houses of outstanding historic or architectural interest. Also included are offprints of articles and addresses by Fox, most of which were were published in Antiquity and The Antiquaries' Journal, as well as offprints of articles by Mortimer Wheeler and other archaeologists, together with a menu card from a dinner held by the Cardiff Naturalists' Society, copies of Stuart Piggott's obituary for Fox in the Proceedings of the British Academy, the address given by Piggott at Fox's memorial service, and letters to Fox from his family.

Correspondence, notes, reports, certificates, press cuttings and other papers relating to Cyril Fox's professional and personal life, including material collected for his biography and proposed autobiography, comprising: academic and professional correspondence and notes of Cyril Fox, with letters from archaeologists to Aileen Fox, and some family correspondence, 1903-1994; correspondence and notes relating to Cyril Fox's appointments to posts at Magdalene College, the National Museum of Ireland and the National Museum of Wales, 1924; correspondence between Cyril Fox and Methuen publishers concerning archaeological books written by him for them, 1929-1935; correspondence between Cyril Fox, Wilfrid Hemp and others concerning the work of the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, with particular reference to archaeological fieldwork, as well as the appointment and pay of senior staff at the Commission, 1927-1952; copies of reports and minutes of meetings at the National Museum of Wales relating to curatorial matters, finances, education, staff members and the new building, and press cuttings and photocopies of articles relating to the Museum and its work, 1926-1990; correspondence between Olive Fox, Cyril Fox and other members of the family, with notes and press cuttings relating to her death, 1931-1933; obituaries and memorials for Cyril Fox and other archaeologists, 1967-1979; photocopies of letters from Cyril Fox to his family, 1951-1961; autobiographical notes by Cyril Fox relating to his working life, with notes and press cuttings relating to The Personality of Britain, [?1930s]-1962; school, Army and university reports, certificates and associated letters relating to Cyril Fox's school life, Army commission, academic qualifications, and honours, 1894-1953; essays on history, literature, art, politics and ideas, some of them in diary form, by Cyril Fox, 1907-1908; poems composed by Cyril Fox, 1903-1909; a diary of an archaeological cruise undertaken by Cyril Fox from Italy through the Adriatic to Greece, together with letters relating to his early life and the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, as well as family history and publishing contracts, 1903-1981; and correspondence, notes and interviews accumulated by Charles Scott-Fox in the course of preparing his biography of Cyril Fox, including the personal and professional reminiscences of archaeologists, some of them concentrating on Fox's involvement in the Vernacular Architecture Group, 1985-2003.