The ship burial is thought to have been the final resting place of King Raedwald, who ruled East Anglia in the seventh century. Mr Wainwright said the 1939 discovery “not only stunned the ...

Believed to be the final resting place of the 7th Century King Raedwald of East Anglia, it is one of the most spectacular and important discoveries in British archaeology. Beowulf Festival The ...

Dan Snow has joined an appeal to stop a Sutton Hoo ship replica from being built using French wood. A £1 million ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...

Barbara Wagstaff, left, and Mercie Lack, right, photographed the excavation site near Woodbridge on the eve of World War Two A collection of photos from the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo have been ...

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The 160-strong team is attempting to create a working version of the seventh-century vessel, in which East Anglian king Raedwald is thought to have been buried. However, the project, which has ...