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    Sutton Hoo is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th centuries near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. Archaeologists have been excavating...
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    The Sutton Hoo helmet is a decorated Anglo-Saxon helmet found during a 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial. It was buried around the years c...
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  • Basil Brown (category Sutton Hoo)
    he discovered and excavated a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in 1939, which has come to be called "one of the most important archaeological...
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    the Sutton Hoo ship-burial, although other theories have been advanced. A smaller ship-burial was also discovered in 1998 close to the original Sutton Hoo...
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  • Edith Pretty (category Sutton Hoo)
    August 1883 – 17 December 1942) was an English landowner on whose land the Sutton Hoo ship burial was discovered after she hired Basil Brown, a local excavator...
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    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...
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    'princely' graves and high-status settlements. The ship burial in mound one at Sutton Hoo (Suffolk) is the most widely known example of a 'princely' burial, containing...
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  • The Dig (2021 film) (category Sutton Hoo)
    by John Preston, which reimagines the events of the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England. It stars Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James...
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    52°05′41″N 1°20′29″E / 52.0948°N 1.3415°E / 52.0948; 1.3415 Sutton Hoo Helmet is a 2002 sculpture by the English artist Rick Kirby. A representation...
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    burial at Sutton Hoo. It has been suggested by Blair, on the strength of parallels between some objects found under Mound 1 at Sutton Hoo and those discovered...
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    Anglo-Saxon lyre (category Sutton Hoo)
    cemetery excavations in southwest Germany. The archaeological excavation at Sutton Hoo in 1939, and the correct reconstruction of the lyre in 1970, brought about...
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  • Spong Hill in Norfolk and the great sixth-seventh century ship burial of Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. The early Anglo-Saxon period in England lasted from the fifth...
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  • The Dig (novel) (category Sutton Hoo)
    set in the context of the 1939 Anglo-Saxon ship burial excavation at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, England. The dust jacket describes it as "a brilliantly realized...
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  • at the British Museum and was involved in the 2014 exhibition of the Sutton Hoo collections. She advises on the importance and value of archaeological...
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    thick-walled cloisons of the Late Antique and Migration Period style. At Sutton Hoo, the Anglo-Saxon pieces mostly use garnet cloisonné, but this is sometimes...
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    first Anglo-Saxon helmet to be discovered, with five others found since: Sutton Hoo (1939), Coppergate (1982), Wollaston (1997), Shorwell (2004) and Staffordshire...
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    some major archaeological sites of the Anglo-Saxon period, including the Sutton Hoo burial ship. It is well known for its boating harbour and tide mill next...
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    dragons, arranged in a manner similar to horns. Decorative plates of the Sutton Hoo helmet (c. AD 600 ) depict spear-carrying dancing men wearing horned helmets...
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    elaborate helmets with embossed decoration similar to the one found at Sutton Hoo in England. During the period, Swedish expeditions began to explore the...
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    Anglo-Saxon cemeteries contemporary with the spectacular ship burial at Sutton Hoo. Her thesis was titled "The use of grave-goods in conversion-period England...
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    attack. There has however been speculation that 23 of the corpses at the Sutton Hoo burial site were sacrificial victims clustered around a sacred tree from...
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    comparable to the Sutton Hoo shield, and has a stamped metal strip mount which is actually die-linked to an equivalent piece at Sutton Hoo. The Vendel boats...
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    West Row, in Eriswell and in Lakenheath. In the east of the county is Sutton Hoo, the site of one of England's most significant Anglo-Saxon archaeological...
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  • Charles Phillips (archaeologist) (category Sutton Hoo)
    British archaeologist best known for leading the 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo burial ship, an intact collection of Anglo-Saxon grave-goods. In 1946...
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  • archaeologist noted for his excavations in East Anglia, and his work on the Sutton Hoo ship-burial. His "signal achievements" were his East Anglian excavations...
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  • Hoo or hoo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hoo or HOO may refer to: Hoo (surname), including a list of people with the name Thomas Hoo, Baron Hoo...
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    and astronomer Basil Brown, who discovered the Anglo-Saxon treasure at Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge, Suffolk. In 2022, Dolan starred as Sister Aloysius in...
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  • Vincent Burrough Redstone (category Sutton Hoo)
    1941) was a Suffolk historian who suggested to Edith Pretty that the Sutton Hoo Ship-burial should be excavated. He was a master of Woodbridge School...
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    Community Dig". YouTube. "Time Team to dig at Sutton Hoo in 2024". www.timeteamdigital.com. "Time Team to dig Sutton Hoo 2024". YouTube. "Paul Greedus". IMDb (Internet...
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  • inevitably has to choose. When Éomer appears in a helmet recalling the Sutton Hoo helmet, he is plainly Anglo-Saxon. Éomer is the son of Théodwyn and Éomund...
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