Sutton Hoo

The restored ceremonial helmet is one of the most iconic finds from Sutton Hoo.^[1]

A ghostly impression of the buried ship was revealed during excavations in 1939. Much later a plaster cast was taken, from which a fibre-glass shape was produced.

Sutton Hoo is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating to the 6th and early 7th centuries CE that is located near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. One contained an undisturbed ship burial including a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artefacts of outstanding art-historical and archaeological significance, which are now held in the British Museum in London. Other sites had produced significant finds, but had previously been looted.

The ship-burial, probably dating from the early 7th century and excavated in 1939, is one of the most magnificent archaeological finds in England for its size and completeness, its meaning, the quality and beauty of its contents, and for the profound interest of the burial ritual itself.

Sutton Hoo Media

Anglo-Saxon Shoulder Clasp from Sutton Hoo Burial, 625-630 CE
Anglo-Saxon Sword Belt End Ornament from Sutton Hoo Burial, 625-630 CE
Wicklaw and Ipswich
The Kingdom of East Anglia during the early Anglo/Angle-Saxon period, with Sutton Hoo in the south-eastern area near to the coast
Mound 17 (orange), Mound 14 (purple), inhumations (green), and cremation graves (blue) at Sutton Hoo
Grave goods from the Sutton Hoo burial mound 17, England.
Mound 2 is the only Sutton Hoo tumulus to have been reconstructed to its estimated original height.
"Sand body" preserved for museum display
Mound 1 (in red) within the burial ground (burial mounds are coloured grey)
A replica of the Sutton Hoo helmet produced for the British Museum by the Royal Armouries