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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.
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".
"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 ...
The 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo burial ship The Sutton Hoo helmet is the most iconic find from its namesake ship-burial Main article: Sutton Hoo Phillips was in charge of the excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial , widely considered the grave of the Anglo-Saxon king Rædwald of East Anglia , from 10 July to 25 August 1939.
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 ...
The site was unearthed in the late 1930s, including a 27-metre oak burial ship, alongside Byzantium silverware and luxurious textiles. ... Other research has suggested Sutton Hoo could be the ...
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.
Shoulder clasps from Sutton Hoo. Sutton Hoo is a series of 6th-7th century burial mounds found in Suffolk, England. The first and also the largest mound, originally excavated in 1939 by Basil Brown, contained a 90-foot-long (27 m) ship, and is supposedly the burial site of Rædwald, the leader of the Wuffing dynasty. It was in this mound that ...