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Excavation at Sutton Hoo

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In 1937, Mrs Edith Pretty employed a Suffolk Archaeologist Basil Brown, along with two labourers to open up three mounds on her land at Sutton Hoo. The mounds were opened in 1938 and they realised they had been rich Anglo Saxon graves, all three had been plundered but in mound two they found traces of an Anglo-Saxon boat.

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20th Aug 2006 by Diane Earl

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History

Key Stages:
Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 4+

Keywords:
Anglo-Saxon Saxon Saxons Danes burial mound archaeology Dark-Ages bodies cremate bones skeleton Sutton Hoo ship grave goods ritual belief after-life afterlife

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