Sutton Hoo: burial ground of kings?

by Carver, M. O. H.

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Title Statements

Full title :Sutton Hoo : burial ground of kings? / Martin Carver.

Summary

The Sutton Hoo ship-burial is one of the most significant archaeological finds ever made in Europe and arguably in the world. It lies in a site that contains all the elements of archaeological mystery and romance: seventeen burial mounds, buried treasure, great works of art, sacrificed horses, and evidence of human execution. In the first accessible account of the whole story to date, Martin Carver explains what we know of Sutton Hoo burial ground, in which the leaders of the Dark Age kingdom of East Anglia signaled their belief in a pagan and maritime kingdom independent of the Christian Europe of the day. In Sutton Hoo, Martin Carver, director of the most recent excavations, tells the story, not only of one of the most dramatic historic places in early England but of the fifty years of its exploration - a history of British archaeology.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1998.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Pennsylvania Press
Place of Publication:Philadelphia, Penn
Language:eng
Publication Date:1998.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 195 pages : : illustrations (some color), maps)

Edition Identifiers

oclc:on1035680511
LC Classification:DA155
Dewey Decimal:936.2/646

Subjects

15.35 medieval and post-medieval archae… Anglo-Saxons Anglo-Saxons -- Angleterre Anglo-Saxons -- England Anglo-Saxons -- Kings and rulers Anglo-Saxons -- Rois et souverains Antiquities Archeologische vondsten Begraafplaatsen East Anglia (England) -- Kings and rule… England -- East Anglia England -- Suffolk England -- Sutton Hoo Ship Burial Excavations (Archaeology) Excavations (Archaeology) -- England Fouilles (Archéologie) -- Angleterre Kings and rulers -- Death and burial Koningen (vorsten) Navires médiévaux -- Angleterre schepen