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Photos of Sutton Hoo site and exhibit, taken in March 2010.

Photos taken of Sutton Hoo site and exhibition in March 2010.

Photograph of the reconstruction of the ship burial chamber, from the visitor centre, at Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge, Suffolk. Showing the body of the burial including many of the artefacts which have been reproduced for the exhibition including the…

Photograph of the reconstruction of the ship burial chamber, from the visitor centre, at Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge, Suffolk. Many of the artefacts near the upper body of the burial which have been reproduced for the exhibition are visible including…

M/1992/44. This burnt human bone is part of a collection of several Anglo-Saxon objects which were found by workmen when they were building Edridge Road in Croydon, between February 1893 and September 1894. Some of the objects were given to the old…

M/1992/4. This pot was found by workmen when they were building Edridge Road between February 1893 and September 1894. Some of the objects from the site were given to the old Grangewood Museum in Croydon and are now being looked after by Croydon…

British Museum presentation and notes on the Anglo-Saxons and the discoveries at Sutton Hoo. All these notes are © Trustees of the British Museum.

The Middle Saxon cemetery in the Close of Exeter Cathedral consisted of a mix of burials: some simple inhumations, others ‘charcoal burials’. One of the latter type is shown here: the body of an adult has been laid on a bed of charcoal, which…

Mound 2 was excavated by Basil Brown in 1938, the year before his famous discovery of the ship burial in Mound 1. It was re-investigated in the 1980s and 90s by Martin Carver, who concluded it was originally a rich chamber burial covered by a boat…

Photograph of the reconstruction of the ship burial chamber, from the visitor centre, at Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge, Suffolk. Most of the artefacts which have been reproduced for the exhibition are visible including swords, the great helmet and a…