Ebook: Sutton Hoo: A Seventh-Century Princely Burial Ground and Its Context

With major contributions by Angela Evans, Christopher Fern, Madeleine Hummler, Frances Lee and John Newman.

Based on field recording by Andrew Copp, Angela Evans, Justin Garner-Lahire, Jennifer Glazebrook, Madeleine
Hummler, Nigel Macbeth, John Newman, Linda Peacock and Catherine Royle; and specialist studies by Janet Ambers, Phillip Bethel, Leo Biek, Julie Bond, Charles French, Alan Hall, Terry O’Connor, Steve Rothera, Rob Scaife, Keith Wade and Penelope Walton Rogers.

With line illustrations by Victor Ambrus, James Brennan, Jim Farrant, Trevor Pearson, Juliet Reeves, Annette Roe, Horste Spalding, James Thorn and staff of Field Archaeology Specialists (York) Ltd. Photography by Nigel Macbeth.

This book offers complete description of archaeological investigations begun in 1983 to understand the context of the seventh-century burial ship discovered (in 1939) at Sutton Hoo on the River Deben in Suffolk (its treasure is in the British Museum). Contributions discuss the design and execution of the excavation, the artefacts themselves and their interpretation, and the site's prehistoric and post Sutton Hoo contexts.