Sutton Hoo

discovery and excavination
1. found in Suffolk in 1939
  1. on the land of Mrs Edith Pretty
    1. she had a local archelogiast Basil Brown come over to check the mounds witch she owned.
      1. he came and dug up three of the mounds but found they have been disturbed in around in the late 16th or early 17th century by robbers
        then he came again and dug up mound 2 and saw it had also been robed but relised it had a ship inside.
        and then dug up mound 1 and saw it has been tounched by robbers but only the top and Brown saw that there was a Anglo-Saxon ship with items inside.
what happened during the war
1. since the war started all the items were kept in the london underground whith other meusem tresures
  1. and sadly Mrs Pretty died in 1942 and never new what she found
  2. but after the war they begsn research
items
1. a lot of valuable items were found in the burial
  1. like the Sutton Hoo: helmet,sword,shield,the golden belt buccle, silver spoons......
    1. The helmet was found in 500 pieces and it took a year to fix it
      1. the Sutton Hoo helmet
        ORGIANL
        REPLICA
        PEOPLE PRESUME THIS IS HOW IT LOOKED LIKE
    2. there were shoulder clasps found
      1. looking shoulder claspes as found
      2. just found in the soil
    3. the golden belt bukel
      1. it is smaller than it looks
        aprox12x5cm
    4. Silver spoones
      1. the spoons said saulus and palus and the qeustion which can not be awnsered today was the person christian?
Who was in the ship
1. to be true there was nobody in side
  1. but the soil had an acid of a human in it so people presume there was a human inside
    1. remember the thing is over 1000 years old
    2. people were thinking that it might be King Raedwald of East Angila
      1. The reason so is because the items looked like for a king
      2. the coins that have been found were showing the date of when King Raedwald was alive
      3. another proof is that it might have been is because there was a scepter with it all and only kings had scepters

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