Sutton Hoo
The archaeological discovery of a Scandinavian ship burial at Sutton Hoo was probably the most spectacular ever made in Britain. On the eve of the Second World War, in the summer of 1939, Basil Brown, an archaeologist employed by the Suffolk landowner, Mrs Pretty, uncovered an early English/Anglo Saxon ship burial. Inside the chamber were exquisite items, such as a golden belt buckle, jewellery in garnet, millefiori glass and gold filigree items as well as an impressively decorated helmet. Similar…