Photograph of a boy wearing the reproduction Sutton Hoo helmet from the reconstruction of the ship burial chamber, at the visitor centre, at Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Photograph of a boy wearing the replica Sutton Hoo helmet from the reconstruction of the ship burial chamber, at the visitor centre, at Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge, Suffolk.
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…
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…
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…