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The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, Volume 2: Arms, Armour and Regalia. London: British Museum Publications. ISBN 978-0714113319. Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (1983a). The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, Volume 3: Late Roman and Byzantine silver, hanging-bowls, drinking vessels, cauldrons and other containers, textiles, the lyre, pottery bottle and other items. Vol. I.
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".
Peter Charles van Geersdaele [needs IPA] OBE (3 July 1933 – 20 July 2018) was an English conservator best known for his work on the Sutton Hoo ship-burial.Among other work he oversaw the creation of a plaster cast of the ship impression, from which a fibreglass replica of the ship was formed.
The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company (SHSC) is reconstructing the famous ship unearthed at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, in 1939. ... Sean McMillan previously said he was delighted the project had found a new ...
[193] [194] Over the succeeding quarter century conservation techniques advanced, [195] knowledge of contemporaneous helmets grew, [196] and more helmet fragments were discovered during the 1965–69 re-excavation of Sutton Hoo; [197] [155] [198] [199] accordingly, inaccuracies in Maryon's reconstruction—notably its diminished size, gaps in ...
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 Sutton Hoo ship burial has long shown how objects could cross vast distances at this time, but Dr Gittos emphasises how people and ideas moved just as freely." Follow Suffolk news on BBC ...
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.