6. The Sutton Hoo ship burial took a lot of effort. Historians have noted the enormous amount of labor it would have required to provide a grand ship burial such as Sutton Hoo’s. Numerous people would have helpeddrag the ship uphillfrom the nearby River Deben. Then, they would have dug...
Sutton Hoo is, essentially, a very large graveyard near the North Sea and river Deben. The two graves there date back to the 6th and 7th centuries, both containing a large number of historical artifacts. One of the graves was a ship burial, and most of the wealth and artifacts found fro...
At Sutton Hoo in 1939, an ancient ship burial and treasure was found. In the article “Sutton Hoo and Europe, AD 300-1100” from the British Museum website, it explains the Sutton Hoo find and its significance to archaeology: “The Sutton Hoo ship burial provides remarkable insights into ...
Sutton Hoo, estate near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, that is the site of an early medieval burial ground that includes the grave or cenotaph of an Anglo-Saxon king. The burial, one of the richest Germanic burials found in Europe, contained a ship fully