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Anglo-Saxon Shoulder Clasp from Sutton Hoo Burial, 625-630 Anglo-Saxon Sword Belt End Ornament from Sutton Hoo Burial, 625-630. Sutton Hoo is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th centuries near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England.
In 1939, Suffolk landowner Edith Pretty hires local self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown to tackle the large burial mounds at her rural estate in Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge.At first, she offers the same money he received from the Ipswich Museum, the agricultural wage, [2] but he says it is inadequate; so she increases her offer by 12% to £2 a week (approximately £120 in 2020), which he accepts.
6th; 7th; 8th; 9th; 10th; 11th; Pages in category "Films set in 6th-century Anglo-Saxon England" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
The hoard includes almost 4,600 items and metal fragments, [8] [1] totalling 5.094 kg (11.23 lb) of gold and 1.442 kg (3.18 lb) of silver, with 3,500 cloisonné garnets [6] [9] and is the largest treasure of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver objects discovered to date, eclipsing, at least in quantity, the 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) hoard found in the Sutton Hoo ship burial in 1939.
animated film based on the 1971 novel Grendel, retelling the Anglo-Saxon poem from the monster's perspective Beowulf & Grendel: 2005: 6th century: Denmark in the Germanic Heroic Age – loose adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon poem of Beowulf: Grendel: 2007: 6th century: Denmark in the Germanic Heroic Age – very loose adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon ...
Terry Herbert, the treasure hunter who recently unearthed the world's largest and most important hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold in Staffordshire, England, recently reflected on his historic find. He ...
Sutton Hoo purse-lid. The Sutton Hoo purse-lid is one of the major objects excavated from the Anglo-Saxon royal burial-ground at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England.The site contains a collection of burial mounds, of which much the most significant is the undisturbed ship burial in Mound 1 containing very rich grave goods including the purse-lid.
Researchers at National Museums Scotland, which have been studying the hoard, proposed a new translation which suggests the treasure belonged to everybody. A runic inscription on one of its silver ...