Ancient site · England · Partial ruin
Sutton Hoo
Sutton Hoo is an early medieval Anglo-Saxon burial site on a river-facing promontory in Suffolk, England, containing about twenty earthen burial mounds. The most famous is Mound 1, under which a 27-metre clinker-built oak ship and a timber-lined burial chamber with rich grave goods were placed.
Its prime
AD 625
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in AD 625
What Sutton Hoo looked like in its prime.
On a grassy promontory above the tidal River Deben stand about twenty low oval earthen mounds. Mound 1 covers a 27 m clinker-built oak ship whose tall stem and stern posts just push above the turf; the hull is fastened with iron rivets and framed by oak ribs. Beneath the mound a timber-lined, pitched-roof chamber contains an oak platform with a wrapped body and neatly arranged grave goods: gilded metalwork, a face-mask helmet, a round shield, a sword and drinking vessels. Surroundings are open grassland and a river horizon.
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