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The Sutton Hoo helmet is a decorated Anglo-Saxon helmet found during a 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial.It was buried around the years c. 620–625 AD and is widely associated with an Anglo-Saxon leader, King Rædwald of East Anglia; its elaborate decoration may have given it a secondary function akin to a crown.
A replica of the Sutton Hoo helmet produced for the British Museum by the Royal Armouries. David M. Wilson has remarked that the metal artworks found in the Sutton Hoo graves were "work of the highest quality, not only in English but in European terms". [60] Sutton Hoo is a cornerstone of the study of art in Britain in the 6th–9th centuries.
Sutton Hoo Helmet outside the Sutton Hoo visitor centre. Sutton Hoo Helmet is a 2002 sculpture by the English artist Rick Kirby.A representation of the Anglo-Saxon helmet by the same name found in the Sutton Hoo ship-burial, it was commissioned by the National Trust to suspend outside an exhibition hall at the Sutton Hoo visitor centre.
The Sutton Hoo helmet found during the initial excavation [Getty Images] The famous Sutton Hoo burial site may have also included graves of soldiers recruited by a foreign army, new research has ...
The Anglo-Saxon treasures unearthed at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk have been described as one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time. Original photographs of 1939 dig go on display at ...
Reconstructing the Sutton Hoo helmet and the Portland Vase Nigel Reuben Rook Williams (15 July 1944 – 21 April 1992) was an English conservator and expert on the restoration of ceramics and glass. From 1961 until his death he worked at the British Museum , where he became the Chief Conservator of Ceramics and Glass in 1983.
Other research has suggested Sutton Hoo could be the resting place of an Anglo-Saxon King, potentially Raedwald, who ruled the kingdom of East Anglia. Sue Brunning, Curator of Early Medieval ...
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