Another reason why I think that Sutton Hoo might not get as much attention is that many of the objects found in the burial are either small in scale, such as a purse clasp (shown below), shoulder clasp, and belt. These objects include a lot of minute detail and interlace lines that ne...
Many historical artifacts were unearthed alongside the body of the unknown war chieftain, one of them was the Sutton Hoo helmet. When they discovered the helmet it was shattered into more or less five hundred pieces. When archeologists tried to reassemble the helmet they discovered that it had ...
When found, the magnificent helmet from the Anglo-Saxon grave at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, was in hundreds of pieces. The burial chamber had collapsed and reduced the helmet to a pile of fragments. Pieces of rusted iron were mixed up with pieces of tinned bronze, all so corroded as to be bar...
maskeyesOdinMedievalAnglo-SaxonHellviThis paper presents some new observations concerning the construction of the Sutton Hoo helmet, as a point of entry to a wider discussion of pre-Christian religious and ideological links across Scandinavia. It will be argued that in certain circumstances and ...