Treasures from Sutton Hoo

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• Every purchase supports the British Museum
• A beautifully designed introduction to the most spectacular hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found
• The objects unearthed in 1939 from an Anglo-Saxon ship-burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, rank among the most splendid treasures in the collection of the British Museum
• Bringing together fine craftsmanship from England, Germany, Scandinavia, Alexandria and far Byzantium, the spectacular finds included gold and garnet jewellery, silverware, drinking vessels with silver-gilt fittings, a lyre and a sceptre, as well as the iconic helmet, all deliberately buried in the early seventh century as grave-goods for an important, though unidentified, warrior
• The Sutton Hoo ship-burial was one of the most exciting discoveries ever made in British archaeology