The Sutton Hoo Story

Encounters with Early England
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78327-204-4
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 593 g

A definitive account of Sutton Hoo, its discovery, history and famed treasure.

The Sutton Hoo ship-burial is one of the most significant finds ever made in Europe. It lies in a burial ground which contains all the elements of archaeological mystery: seventeen mounds, buried treasure, and sacrificed horses. In this very accessible book, Martin Carver explains what we know of this site, at which the leaders of the Dark Age kingdom of East Anglia signalled the pagan and maritime nature of their court. This is the story not only of this dramatic place, but also of its exploration over half a century, which amounts to a potted history of British archaeology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carver, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Mrs Pretty digs up a ship
The British Museum's Treasure
A New Campaign
Before Sutton Hoo: c.3000 BC to c.AD 600
Burial Ground of Kings AD 590 to 650
The Gallows and the Gentry AD 650 to 1938
Now entertain conjecture of a time: Painting a picture of the seventh century
Bibliography and Sources
Background reading on Anglo-Saxon England
Archaeological Records
Notes to Text

Über Autor(innen)

Carver, Martin
Martin Carver has been publishing with Boydell since 1993, and is one of the leading archaeologists in Britain, and indeed Europe. He was professor at York from 1986 to 2008. He has been responsible for most of the excavations at Sutton Hoo since the 1970s.