The Sutton Hoo Site

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Summary Location and Opening Archaeology Information for Teachers Further Reading

Photo C.Hoppitt

 Sutton Hoo is a group of low grassy burial mounds overlooking Woodbridge and the River Deben in SE Suffolk, England. In 1939 excavations brought to light the richest burial ever discovered in Britain, an Anglo-Saxon ship containing the treasure of one of the earliest English Kings, Rędwald, King of East Anglia. Further excavations, completed in 1992, proved the site to be a complex collection of burials, some royal, others possibly the victims of judicial execution.  Most recently, excavations in advance of building work in 2000, uncovered the remains of another, earlier cemetery, 500m north of the main mound cemetery.

 

For more information about the site, and the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of East Anglia you may find this short booklist useful:

(A pack of information for teachers is also available)

A.C. Evans Sutton Hoo Ship Burial (British Museum 1986)
M.O.H. Carver (ed.) The Age of Sutton Hoo (The Boydell Press 1992)
M.O.H. Carver Sutton Hoo : Burial Ground of Kings ?  (British Museum Press 1998)
C.Green Sutton Hoo (Merlin Press 1988 (revised edition))
N.J. Higham An English Empire Bede and the early Anglo-Saxon Kings (Manchester U.P. 1995)
S.Newton The Origins of Beowulf and the pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia (D.S. Brewer 1992)
P.Warner The Origins of Suffolk (Manchester U.P. 1996)