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Sutton Hoo purse-lid. The Sutton Hoo purse-lid is one of the major objects excavated from the Anglo-Saxon royal burial-ground at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England.The site contains a collection of burial mounds, of which much the most significant is the undisturbed ship burial in Mound 1 containing very rich grave goods including the purse-lid.
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.
The purse-lid from the Sutton Hoo burial of about 620 AD has two plaques with a human between two wolves, and the motif is common in Anglo-Saxon art and related Early Medieval styles, where the animals generally remain aggressive.
The famous Sutton Hoo burial site may have also included graves of soldiers recruited by a foreign army, new research has revealed. Helen Gittos, 50, an associate professor of early medieval ...
The last dig at the site was in 2000 when the visitor centre and car park was developed.
The Anglo-Saxon treasures unearthed at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk have been described as one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time.
Purse lid from Sutton Hoo, c. 625 The study of Northern European, or "Germanic", zoomorphic decoration was pioneered by Bernhard Salin [ 1 ] in a work published in 1904. [ 2 ] He classified animal art of the period roughly from 400 to 900 into three phases: Styles I, II and III.
Examples of Style II can be found on the gold purse lid from Sutton Hoo (c. 625). Eventually about 700 localised styles develop, and it is no longer very useful to talk of a general Germanic style. [9] Salin Style III is found mainly in Scandinavia, and may also be called Viking art. Interlace, where it occurs, becomes less regular and more ...