Imagining Sutton Hoo: Rædwald's helm by Aakheperure | Redbubble A simplified design of the reconstructed Sutton Hoo helm. Hand drawn in Affinity Designer 2, 2023

Is it #SaxonSunday again?

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Rædwald's Return: A poem in alliterative verse by Karen M.P. Carlson “Perhaps the best known ... story about Sutton Hoo is Edith Pretty’s claim she saw an armed warrior standing on top of Mound 1 long before the excavation took place” . Maybe he wanted to be found!

"Raedwald's Return", by Karen M.P. Carlson, on Forgotten Ground Regained.

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Imagining Sutton Hoo: Rædwald by Aakheperure | Redbubble Dust off your copy of Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader. Using design elements from the Sutton Hoo ship burial to highlight an interlocked serpent design from the great gold belt buckle from the burial. Plea...

In 2025 my most popular design was one based on the sumptuous motifs and colours of #SuttonHoo and it's still one of my favourites too.
Cyning sceal rice healdan
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A wooden box with four lumps of rusty iron sitting on cotton wool. An explanatory note with handwriting is pasted in the u sets die of the raised lid of the box - this mentions that they are ships rivets from Sutton Hoo given by Edith pretty to Vincent Redstone

A drawing of an iron ship’s rivet with the caption ‘3. Ship nail: River Kings in a book by Cat Jarman

A black and white photo (c) British Museum of the excavated shape of the Sutton Hoo ship

For #findsfriday - a small box with iron ship’s rivets. These were given by Edith Pretty to Vincent Redstone to show success in the discovery of the Sutton Hoo ship. I have drew a similar rivets - a Viking one from Repton featuring in ‘River Kings’ by Cat Jarman. #viking #saxon #suttonhoo

Sutton Hoo helmet. Excavated 1939 in a 7thC ship burial, both functional as a helmet & highly decorative. Helmet, which had degraded to fragments over centuries has been painstakingly reconstructed more than once. On display @britishmuseum.bsky.social #suttonhoo #suttonhoohelmet #anglosaxon #saxon

A hunting scene from the 6th century Bromeswell Bucket which was manufactured in the Eastern Mediterranean. The bucket was found at a site near Sutton Hoo in 1986, and is now part of the collections at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #SuttonHoo #Suffolk

We’ve got a very unique piece to show you today! As mentioned a few posts back, we’ve noticed how well the Sutton Hoo helmets fit over the Woden Head pendants, so I riveted the two together and gave this new piece a nice gold plate finish.✨

#anglosaxon #woden #suttonhoo

The gold and enamel shoulder clasps which were discovered in 1939 as part of the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo, near Woodbridge in Suffolk. Dating to the early 7th century, the clasps are now part of the collections at the British Museum. #FindsFriday #SuttonHoo

Simon Stone's "The Dig" was released five years ago today.
#ralphfiennes #onthisday #netflix #thedig #suttonhoo #movies #cinema

De grafheuvel hoort bij een groep van 11 #Angelsaksische grafheuvels uit de 6e tot 7e eeuw. Volgens de #archeologen past het graf in ‘dezelfde elitaire traditie als die in #SuttonHoo, Snape en Prittlewell’. 2/

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Treasures Experts Called "Fake" How many world-changing treasures are you walking past every single day? We like to think history is set in stone, but the truth is, most of it is hiding in plain sight—waiting for someone brave enough to look closer. In this episode, we explore the incredible phenomenon of historical rediscovery, where the world's most valuable artifacts were dismissed as fakes, trash, or background noise by the so-called "experts." We dive into the humiliating arrogance of the academic elite who labeled the masterpieces of the Altamira Cave Paintings as modern forgeries because they couldn't believe ancient humans were that talented. We piece together the fragmented puzzle of the Sutton Hoo Helmet, showing how a pile of rusty "debris" turned out to be one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time. This isn't just about old rocks; it's about cognitive bias. Why do we miss what is right in front of us? In this episode, we uncover: - The Altamira Mistake: How bias nearly erased the "Sistine Chapel" of the Paleolithic era. - The Sutton Hoo Resurrection: Piecing together a king's legacy from fragments. - The Invisible Evidence: How ancient footprints and digital data are rewriting the timeline. - The Power of Perspective: Why changing how you look reveals the truth. History isn't over. It’s just waiting for you to find it. 🔊 Press play to change the way you see the world around you. If you love unearthing hidden truths and challenging the status quo, hit that Subscribe button and leave us a review! Share this episode with a friend who has a keen eye for detail—they might be the next great discoverer.

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Glamourous Blonde woman looks downwards with whote text bubble saying sutton who?

Getting my archaeology lols while watching Real Housewives of Beverly Hills 🤣 #SuttonHoo

The collection of 37 gold coins (each from a different mint) and 2 gold ingots from the great purse in the Sutton Hoo ship burial. A coin for each of the crew, ingots for the helm and the skipper.

Attending the #WuffingEducation morning seminar on Beowulf and beyond. We’ve moved from St Eligius to the Merovingian kings and on to the #SuttonHoo coin collection. #EarlyMedieval

The rusted remains of a very old helmet, on display in a museum. The head band, nose guard and main bands forming a cross over the skull survive, with part of a boar crest. For more detail, visit the item's entry on the museum website: https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/benty-grange-helmet/

A replica of the original helmet described in the alt-text to the other picture. This one is complete with extra bands, studded decoration on the bands, a cross on the nose guard and hair bristles on the boar crest.

The Benty Grange Helmet, original & reconstruction. It was found in 1848 in a late C7 barrow in Derbyshire - the first Anglo-Saxon / early English example found in the country, 91 years before the #SuttonHoo discoveries. On display in Weston Park Museum, #Sheffield. #Museums Pics my own, from 2021.

Some of the royal burial mounds at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, including the site of the famous 7th century ship burial in the in the foreground - one of 18 burial mounds, and the likely grave of King Rædwald of East Anglia. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #SuttonHoo #Suffolk

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Tony Robinson’s Cunningcast: Unearthing the Secrets of SUTTON HOO

🪏Today @Tony_Robinson is digging up the secrets of #SuttonHoo Anglo-Saxon royal burial site, with Professor Martin Carver and Laura Howarth @nationaltrust

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Cast of Anglo Saxon remains

Not quite a skeleton, but an Anglo Saxon burial at #SuttonHoo. The bones have not survived, but the flesh had stained the sandy soil. During excavation, the soil was then laminated so that the figures of the dead were preserved & casts taken
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Day 13: skeleton

The Age of Twilight by sanderson & sanderson on hearthis.at | gramophonics, Sutton Hoo, red deer rut, Wuffingas, Soundscap

The Age of Twilight - an incidental soundscape by sanderson & sanderson, which I helped out with. The piece is inspired by the landscape of Sutton Hoo and Wuffinga-land, and features field recordings of a red deer rut on Westleton Heath.
#SuttonHoo #reddeerrutting #Beowulf #Wuffingas

I am SURE I must know someone who would appreciate this incredible piece...

The opportunity to cherish this kind of beautiful craft doesn't come around often.

#Archaeology 🏺 #AngloSaxon #SuttonHoo

Launching AR content for Time Team at Sutton Hoo. @timeteam.bsky.social #ar #augmentedreality #timeteam #suttonhoo #timeteamlive #suttonhoo #nationaltrust

Raindrops on the window.

A big fluffy black cat sleeps on a stool in front of the triptych of windows. Outside, rain falls on the garden, fields, and loch.

A rainy Monday in #Uist and I’m at the regular study morning on the #EarlyMedieval. We’re currently discussing the purpose of the #SuttonHoo poleaxe.

Black and white image of some of the burial mounds at Sutton Hoo. Mound 2 has a group of people on a guided tour.

Of course we went to #SuttonHoo on Sunday didn't we... so for #TombTuesday what can we do but this!

A colour image of the Royal Burial cemetery at Sutton Hoo taken from the viewing tower.

#SuttonHoo ♥️

Out to abbeygatecinema.co.uk to the wonderful The Dig #film 📽 the excavations of #SuttonHoo by Basil Brown on behalf of Edith Pretty 🙂
Basil didn't think he would be remembered & I love that every time somebody watches this film 🎬 he is ❤
His work is now credited by the British #Museums 🏛 displays 🙂

it *happened*
The #dig was #REAL, not “ #mythical “
The #SuttonHoo #Hoard is in the #BritishMuseum

FFS
Does the #NYT write in #English, or #Muricun?

#Murica needs more #TimeTeam & #SirTonyRobinson

House martin feathers

Went back to @nationaltrust.org.uk’s Sutton Hoo today. My most exciting moment was finding these house martin feathers among the faeces below their nests under the eaves of the main house. They’ll make an excellent addition to my collection. 😁 #SuttonHoo

Raedwald: The Sutton Hoo King? An apology: this article is a little longer than my normal offerings! All images are public domain. Most readers of this blog will have heard of Sutton Hoo; a good number of you may even have visit…

New Blog: #SuttonHoo: who was buried there and how do they fit within #AngloSaxon historicity?
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A closed-cap, immature fruiting body approximately 15cm or 6” tall. Ball-like with dark flakes on the upper surface. Scales growths on the stipe or stem

The open parasol-shaped top is high on the stipe or stem above a loose ring.

In this specimen the opened cap is clearly patterned with darker flakes and is approximately 6” or 15cm in diameter.

A larger, mature specimen within the restricted archaeological area so photographed at a distance. Probably 10” or 25cm diameter.

My thanks to @debivort.bsky.social for his helping with the ID of this one. Very probably Macrolepiota procera. Growing in the sandy soil at #SuttonHoo in Suffolk. It is one of the #NationalTrust properties. And the site of royal Anglo-Saxon burials.

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Now up on YouTube is a 3 minute short video of the 'Wargaming the Age of the Anglo-Saxons' event at Sutton Hoo last weekend. I'll add a longer one if folk are interested and time allows me! www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2nl... #wargaming #nerdlings #miniatures #spreadthelard #suttonhoo #earlymedieval

Notes on East Anglia II (July 19-25, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections July 19 (Saturday). Ely to Hasketon. Cambridgeshire to Suffolk. The second half of a holiday usually proceeds at twice the speed of the first, in my experience. However, on this occasion, my days w…

John Harvey, Notes on East Anglia II (July 19-25, 2025)
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#travelogue #Ely #Hasketon #BuryStEdmunds #OrfordNess #atomicweapons #Woodbridge #SuttonHoo #Aldeburgh #Norwich #London #supernatural #churches #JulianOfNorwich #cathedrals #AberUniversity