Time Team is delighted to be working with the Sutton Hoo Ship’s Company, to film the amazing reconstruction of the iconic Sutton Hoo ship led by Professor Martin Carver and Jacq Barnard. Members of the team including Tim Taylor and Helen Geake recently visited the Longshed in Suffolk to mee...
Alongside our filming of the Sutton Hoo Ship’s Company’s reconstruction, we’re thrilled to be involved in two wonderful projects linked to one of Britain’s most iconic archaeological sites, and look forward to sharing more details in the weeks and months ahead… We have a whole range of...
Brunning’s post was written to commemorate the discovery of the Sutton Hoo ship burial, which took place eighty years ago in 1939. This discovery was monumental and was unprecedented in many ways, since it is one of the most intact burials that has been found in Europe. This ship – whi...
This book explains how it was discovered together with other priceless treasures including a ship in the great mound at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, by the archaeologist Basil Brown in the late 1930s. He was employed by the owner of the estate, Mrs Edith Pretty, who generously donated the whole ...
Gold shoulder clasp with inlays of garnets and glass found in the Sutton Hoo ship burialRob Roy via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.5 Over the course of several excavations in 1938 and 1939, Brown and the archaeological team found 263 objects buried in the central chamber of the enormous...