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Visit Room 41. Read Edith Pretty's remarkable story. The interment of a ship at Sutton Hoo represents the most impressive medieval grave to be discovered in Europe. Inside the burial mound was the imprint of a decayed ship and a central chamber filled with treasures. But who was buried there and what did it reveal about this period in history?
The Sutton Hoo treasures represent a continuum from pre-Christian royal accumulation of precious objects from diverse cultural sources, through to the art of gospel books, shrines and liturgical or dynastic objects.
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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...
- The Sutton Hoo investigation began with some mysterious mounds. Former World War I nurse Edith Pretty moved with her new husband Frank to Sutton Hoo in Suffolk in 1926.
- An amateur archaeologist used a coal shovel to excavate the Sutton Hoo mounds. Basil Brown had left school at the age of 12 and worked a number of jobs, from gardener to insurance agent.
- The Sutton Hoo ship burial proved that the ‘Dark Ages’ was a misnomer. Around 410 CE, as the Roman Empire broke down, the Roman army left England. Then, Germanic tribes like the Angles and Saxons invaded and settled in eastern England.
- The body was missing from the Sutton Hoo ship burial. During the 1939 excavation, no trace of human bones was found. Some archaeologists proposed that the tomb must have been a cenotaph—a memorial containing no body.
Feb 1, 2021 · 1 February 2021. By Kate Scotter,BBC News, Suffolk. Trustees of the British Museum. Basil Brown was an archaeologist who worked for Ipswich Museum. Archaeologist Basil Brown unearthed some of the...
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The Treasure Ship of Sutton Hoo. HISTORY MAGAZINE. The ghostly treasure ship of Sutton Hoo. In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents:...
Dec 6, 2023 · Sutton Hoo Ship Burial. by The British Museum. Sutton Hoo and Europe 300–1100 C.E., The Sir Paul and Lady Ruddock Gallery © The Trustees of the British Museum. The most famous Anglo-Saxon treasures in the Museum come from the Sutton Hoo burial site in Suffolk.
