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In 1939, a self-taught excavator named Basil Brown was digging a mound on Edith Pretty’s estate in Suffolk when his trowel traced the outline of a 27-metre Anglo-Saxon ship whose timber had long since rotted, leaving only iron rivets holding the shape of a vessel in the sand
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Brown first worked at Sutton Hoo in 1938, opening three smaller mounds.
It was already roughly a century old by the time it reached Sutton Hoo.
Photo by Pixabay on PexelsSuffolk as a hub in a larger networkThe ship burial changed how historians described the centuries between Roman Britain and the Norman Conquest.
Sutton Hoo exposed a society capable of elaborate craftsmanship, large engineering projects and international exchange.
Most of the major objects remain there today, while the Sutton Hoo estate is cared for by the National Trust.