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Located along the banks of the River Deben lies Sutton Hoo and on the opposite bank is the harbour town Woodbridge, lying just 11 kilometres away from the North-Sea.
This river formed a path of entry into East Anglia during the end of the Roman imperial rule in the 5th century AD.

After the Romans left the area the Germanic tribes began to settle, mostly the Angles and Saxons.
During this time the river Deben had formed part of a busy trading and transportation network and a number of settlements were established along the river.
The Sutton Hoo cemetery was constructed and in use between 575 AD and 625 AD and the grave field contained approximately twenty burial mounds.

A mansion was built on the property of Sutton Hoo in 1910 and this property was bought in 1926 by Colonel Frank Pretty, a retired military officer.
He passed away in 1934 and left a widow Edith Pretty and a young son Robert Dempster Pretty.
In 1937 Edith decided that she wanted the mounds on her property to be excavated and through the Ipswich museum she hired the services of Basil Brown in 1938, he was a self taught archaeologists who worked full time for the museum.
In June 1938 She showed him the mounds and suggested he started his excavations with mound 1, but because it had been disturbed by early grave robbers the Ipswich museum and Brown decided to open 3 smaller mounds, numbers 2, 3 & 4.
Unfortunately these mounds were robbed of their valuable items and only revealed fragmented artefacts.

Brown began excavating Mound 1 in May 1939, he was helped by Edith Pretty’s gardener John Jacobs, her gamekeeper William Spooner and another worker on the estate Bert Fuller.
They started digging a trench on the east side of the mound and on the 3rd day they discovered an iron rivet form a ship. Within the next several hours more rivets were found in their original position.
The size of the find became apparent as this has been one of the most spectacular archaeological discoveries in Britain.
For weeks they painstakingly removed soil from the ship’s hull until they reached the burial chamber.

The Ipswich Museum then handed responsibility over to the British Museum under the leadership of Mr Phillips.
They instructed Mr Brown to cease his excavations until a team could be assembled, but Brown continued his work, which looking back might have saved the site from being looted.
The team Charles Phillips assembled included Welsh Archaeologists William Francis Grimes, the archaeological officer of the Ordnance Survey Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford, Archaeologist Stuart Ernest Piggott and Archaeologist Margaret Guido who at the time was known as Peggy Piggott, the then wife of Stuart.


The ship was made of Oak and had a length of 27 meters long and at the widest point it measured 4.4 meters wide and the keel was at a depth of 1.5 meters.

To get the ship in its current location the heavy oak vessel has to have been transported from the river, up the hill and then it was lowered into a pre-dug trench, only the tops of the stem and stern posts would’ve have been visible above the land surface.
A body and artefacts were then placed inside the burial chamber before a large mound was constructed on top, covering the ship while rising above the horizon being visible from the river.
Unfortunately the mound is no longer visible due to a forest called the top hat woods.

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The king and his cult: the axe-hammer from Sutton Hoo and its implications for the concept of sacral leadership in early medieval Europe Andres Siegfried Dobat∗ ⓒ 2020 The Authors. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology ⓒ 2020 The Nautical Archaeology Society.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo

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