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

British Museum set of visit notes for teachers, on the Anglo-Saxons, Sutton Hoo, and the Vikings. All these are © Trustees of the British Museum.

This poem was written in response to the discovery of the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial by Anna Coburn.

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…

A view from the narrow valley up which the ship in the great Sutton Hoo ship burial would have been dragged, looking towards the ridge behind lay the plateau on which the graveyard is located. The house belonged to Mrs Pretty, the landowner at the…

A collection of photographs of burial mounds, artefacts and reconstructions at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk.

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

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

A reconstruction of the chamber in the Sutton Hoo ship burial. This is on display at the visitor's centre.

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…