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- The largest "internationally significant" hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold coins found in Britain is due to be valued and could command a sum of up to £400,000, an expert said. Some 131 coins were declared treasure last month, and Norwich's Castle Museum, which has been keeping 16 of them, is hoping to buy them all.
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Feb 2, 2021 · What is the value of the Sutton Hoo treasure today? The exact value of the Sutton Hoo treasure isn't widely known, in part because the items in the treasure have never been up for sale. They were donated to the British Museum by Edith, and have remained there ever since.
Jan 17, 2021 · The Anglo-Saxon treasures unearthed at Sutton Hoo have been described as one of "greatest archaeological discoveries of all time". This discovery has been turned into Netflix film The Dig...
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The short background is that after the Romans began withdrawing from Great Britain, the native Britons were faced with invaders from the east — the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, who have become collectively known as “the Anglo-Saxons.” It is believed by historians that their earliest landings and heaviest areas of settlement were in East Anglia, which...
Fast forward to the dawn of World War II in Europe. Wealthy widow Edith Pretty is a landowner in the UK who knows that she has 18 Anglo-Saxon burial mounds on her property. So she calls up self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown. Edith was very familiar with archaeology, as she had traveled extensively throughout her youth. She paid Basil Brown 30 sh...
So why was the Sutton Hoo Treasure so impressive? It wasn’t the value of the items found, despite the fact that these were quite valuable in and of themselves. No, the Sutton Hoo Treasure is more of an archaeological treasure than a financial one. The 90-foot ship was as intact as one could reasonably expect from a ship that was over 1,000 years ol...
May 26, 2024 · May 26, 2024. In the annals of British archaeology, few discoveries shine as bright as the Sutton Hoo treasure. This remarkable collection of Anglo-Saxon grave goods, unearthed from a Suffolk field in 1939, transformed our understanding of early medieval England.
Jan 10, 2022 · Scientists have unearthed the remains of medieval workshops in England where artifacts from the famed Sutton Hoo burial mounds—considered the United Kingdom’s greatest archaeological...
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May 3, 2021 · Sutton Hoo Treasure: One of the Richest Treasures Ever Found in British Soil. Sam Jacobs — May 3, 2021. Image by Jononmac46, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Nowadays, anyone can visit the...
Oct 1, 2021 · [h/t Smithsonian] The Sutton Hoo ship burial excavation was meticulously captured by two amateur photographers. Now, you can see their work online.
