" ... The Sutton Hoo ship burial is one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time. ... Previously it was thought that post-Roman Britain descended into the ‘Dark Ages’, when these islands supposedly experienced a decline in civilisation, sophistication and cosmopolitanism in all areas of life Sutton Hoo helped to explode that myth forever. ... We now know that the mound cemetery containing the ship burial was part of a wider landscape of human activity that reached back for millennia, beyond the Anglo-Saxon era. Research on the Staffordshire Hoard, another gobsmacking Anglo-Saxon discovery made in 2009, revealed that the goldsmiths responsible for Sutton Hoo’s treasures could manipulate the material to enhance its qualities, using methods that can barely be fathomed. ... "
Eighty years (and more) of Sutton Hoo – The British Museum Blog: When I was a first-year history undergraduate, I came to the British Museum on a field trip. The Anglo-Saxon period was brand new to me at the time – the only reason I knew of ‘Sutton Hoo’ and its fame was because a helmet that had been found there was on the front of my [...]
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