Sutton Hoo Burial

Sutton Hoo is the name of a burial site of an Anglo-Saxon king. It is also one of the most important findings in Anglo-Saxon history that helped archaeologists further comprehend the Anglo-Saxon’s. Sutton Hoo is near the town of Woodbridge, England. The area of Sutton Hoo has allegedly been inhabited since as early as 3000 B.C. It was rediscovered back in 1938 and was initially thought to contain 13 burial mounds but later, 5 more were discovered. Most of the burial mounds had been ransacked before any professional archaeologists could get to them. (James 2016)
Luckily the ransackers had failed to find a ninety feet long ship that was full of gold and silver treasures. When the ship was discovered, it was merely a shell of what it used to be. All the wood was rotting and almost completely gone. It was found amongst other smaller ships and contained over 200 objects of gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Another amazing find in the ship was a skeletal body. It was still wrapped in armor and many archaeologists have come to the conclusion that the body was a king. This conclusion is supported by …show more content…
They found much more when they dug into the remaining mounds. In the Anglo-Saxon era, those who were buried were primarily high in rank and were men. Mound two, like the first mound, was another ship burial except in this mound the ship had been found above an underground chamber. The chamber was searched and a buried man was found. In mounds five, six, and seven men were cremated with animals and their ashes were placed in a bronze bowl. In the twelfth burial mound, a child was buried in a coffin along with a miniature spear. In the fourteenth, a woman was also buried in an underground chamber, on a bed with fine silver ornaments surrounding her remains. In mound seventeen a young man was buried in a coffin, with his sword and shield and in a nearby pit, the remains of his horse were found.