Everything discovered at the Sutton Hoo ship burial tells a story. Find out what these exceptional treasures tell us about the Anglo-Saxons in this @National Trust - East of England video 🎬 ▶️ Sutton Hoo Curator Sue Brunning explores what makes the discovery so significant in this blog: http://ow.ly/fWdi30pcynD #SuttonHoo80 | British Museum

Rising from the earth at Sutton Hoo, a series of unassuming, grass-covered mounds mark an ancient royal burial ground. Now the subject of a new Netflix film, The Dig, Sutton Hoo tells the story of Edith Pretty and the excavators who revealed the richest burial ever found in northern Europe. Join us as we head behind the scenes of this ancient site, and discover how the ghost of a king’s ship was seen for the first time in over a thousand years: http://ow.ly/bG3N30rvnlY | National Trust

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Check out this beautiful reconstruction of the Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo helmet. The original Sutton Hoo helmet was found during a 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial. The burial was the final resting place of someone who had died in the early seventh century, during the Anglo-Saxon period – a time before 'England' existed. People think that an Anglo-Saxon king may have been buried here, and a popular candidate is Raedwald, who ruled the kingdom of East Anglia in the early seventh century