One of the rivets from the Sutton Hoo ship displayed at the site. Due to the acidity of the soil, the ship used in the 7thC burial had entirely vanished, with its outline marked by rivets and the outline in the soil #suttonhoo #anglosaxon #saxons #saxon #shipburial

Mound 1 at Sutton Hoo, which contained the great ship burial which may have contained the remains of the 7thC King Raedwald of East Anglia #suttonhoo #anglosaxon #saxons #kingofeastanglia #shipburial #medieval

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A new perspective on the Viking Age

#Scandinavia's oldest known #ShipBurial is located in mid-#Norway at #Herlaugshaugen - and dates to the #Merovingian period:

phys.org/news/2023-12-scandinavia... via @physorg_com

Scandinavia's oldest known ship burial is located in mid-Norway This summer, archaeologists and a metal detectorist conducted a small survey of Herlaugshagen, at Leka in the northern part of Trøndelag County. They found something amazing.

🏺 A new perspective on the Viking Age

#Scandinavia's oldest known #ShipBurial is located in mid-#Norway at #Herlaugshaugen - and dates to the #Merovingian period:

phys.org/news/2023-12...

#shipburial #royalburialground #suttonhoo #anglosaxon #archaeology

Revisiting Sutton Hoo, Britain’s Mythical Ship Burial Thinking about Britain’s deep past, I am always struck by...

In the light of recent movie events (and a review I'm working on), here's @samknightwrites "Revisiting #SuttonHoo, Britain’s Mythical #ShipBurial" for @NewYorker in 2019:

www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/...