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Basil John Wait Brown (22 January 1888 – 12 March 1977) was an English archaeologist and astronomer.Self-taught, he discovered and excavated a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in 1939, which has come to be called "one of the most important archaeological discoveries of all time".
In the 1990s, the Sutton Hoo site, including Sutton Hoo House, was given to the National Trust by the Trustees of the Annie Tranmer Trust. At Sutton Hoo's visitor centre and Exhibition Hall, the newly found hanging bowl and the Bromeswell Bucket, finds from the equestrian grave, and a recreation of the burial chamber and its contents can be seen.
Edith May Pretty (née Dempster; 1 August 1883 – 17 December 1942) was an English landowner on whose land the Sutton Hoo ship burial was discovered after she hired Basil Brown, a local excavator and amateur archeologist, to find out if anything lay beneath the mounds on her property.
The ship burial, one of only three known Anglo-Saxon ship burials, was found between 1938 and 1939 as World War II loomed. The Pretty family moved into the Sutton Hoo estate in 1926, and Edith ...
The site was unearthed in 1939 with a 27-metre oak ship discovered alongside Byzantium silverware and other treasures (Getty) ... Other research has suggested Sutton Hoo could be the resting place ...
Phillips, then a fellow at Selwyn College and working on excavations at Little Woodbury, was alerted to the discovery by Maynard; visiting the site on 6 June, Phillips said "it could be the ship of a King". [19] Due to his experience with excavations, the Sutton Hoo ship-burial was put under his command. [18]
The Anglo-Saxon treasures unearthed at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk have been described as one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time.
Charles Green (1901–1972) was an English archaeologist noted for his excavations in East Anglia, and his work on the Sutton Hoo ship-burial. [1] His "signal achievements" were his East Anglian excavations, including four years spent by Caister-on-Sea and Burgh Castle, [1] and several weeks in 1961 as Director of excavations at Walsingham Priory. [2]