The Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo - British Museum
The iconic Sutton Hoo helmet was wrapped in cloth and laid near the left side of the dead person's head. It's a piece of truly breathtaking artistry, functional and beautiful, with a vaulted cap and deep cheek-pieces.
Sutton Hoo - Wikipedia
Sutton Hoo is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th centuries near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. Archaeologists have been excavating the area since 1938, when an undisturbed ship burial containing a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artifacts was discovered.
Sutton Hoo and Europe - British Museum
Its unparalleled collections range from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea, and from North Africa to Scandinavia. The gallery's centrepiece is the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk – one of the most spectacular and important discoveries in British archaeology.
Sutton Hoo - National Trust Collections
Sutton Hoo is the site of a group of Anglo-Saxon burial mounds from the 6th and 7th centuries. One of the mounds, excavated in 1939, revealed the remains of a 90-foot long wooden ship.
Sutton Hoo | Suffolk | National Trust
3 days ago · Historic image collection at Sutton Hoo Discover the work carried out on archive images of the Great Ship Burial excavation. These images, captured in 1939, helped record this fascinating discovery.
Eighty years (and more) of Sutton Hoo - British Museum
Jul 24, 2019 · The Sutton Hoo collection is significant for its sheer majesty alone, but its true significance lies in how it revolutionised our knowledge and appreciation of the era – and the people – that created it.
Sutton Hoo: Anglo-Saxon ship burial — Google Arts & Culture
The Sutton Hoo ship is the biggest and most complete Anglo-Saxon ship ever found, and is longer than many of the largest modern ocean-going yachts. Ships were very important to the...
Historic images at Sutton Hoo | Suffolk | National Trust
Sutton Hoo's collections. Explore the objects and works of art we care for at Sutton Hoo on the National Trust Collections website. Discover how a team of staff and volunteers digitised the archive images from 1939 of the excavation of the Great Ship Burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk.
Exhibition at Sutton Hoo | Suffolk | National Trust
Sutton Hoo's collections. Explore the objects and works of art we care for at Sutton Hoo on the National Trust Collections website. Search the collections. From the ghost ship to replica treasures, Sutton Hoo in Suffolk has a lot to show off when …
Sutton Hoo - global-britisharchaeology.org
The Sutton Hoo burial mound complex in east Suffolk overlooks the River Deben and the market town of Woodbridge. First excavated in the 1930s, dated to 6th-7th century AD, this is widely regarded as the burial ground of Anglo-Saxon royalty.