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Sutton Hoo: the Other Barrows and Burialswith Dr Sam Newtonin The Old Court, Sutton Hoo (map)
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10.00 | Coffee on arrival | ||
10.15 | Sutton Hoo 1938 – the famous Basil Brown’s excavations and the finds from Mounds 3, 4, & 2. | ||
11.15 | Coffee | ||
11.45 | Sutton Hoo 1986-1991 – Mound 2 revisited; the Mound 5 controversy and the possible execution burials; Mounds 6 & 7. | ||
12.45 | Lunch break (bring picnic or eat in NT restaurant) | ||
14:00 | Sutton Hoo 1986-1991 –Mounds 14, 17 (the well-preserved horse and rider), & 18. | ||
15:00 | Tea break | ||
15:15 | Future Excavations at Sutton Hoo? – the ‘unexcavated’ Mounds 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, & 15; the burials under the National Trust Visitors’ Centre. | ||
c.16:20 | Close |
Sam Newton was awarded his Ph.D at UEA in 1991 and is the author of The Origins of Beowulf and the pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia (1993) and The Reckoning of King Rædwald: The Story of the King linked to the Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial , (2003). He has lectured widely around the country as an independent scholar and has contributed to many radio and television programmes. He is also a Director of Wuffing Education, NADFAS lecturer, and Time Team historian.
Bruce-Mitford, R., Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology (Gollancz 1974).
Bruce-Mitford, R., The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, 3 vols (London 1975, 1978, & 1982).
Carver, M.O.H. (ed.), The Age of Sutton Hoo: The Seventh Century in North-Western Europe (Woodbridge 1992).
Carver, M.O.H., Sutton Hoo, Burial Ground of Kings? (London 1998) for my review of this book, visit www.wuffings.co.uk/MySHPages/MOHCReview.htm
Carver, M.O.H. et al., Sutton Hoo - A Seventh-Century Princely Burial Ground and Its Context, Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London No.69 (British Museum 2005).
Evans, A.C., The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial (British Museum 1986).
Grainger, G. & M.Henig, “A Bone Casket and Relief Plaque from Mound 3 at Sutton Hoo”, Medieval Archaeology 27 (1983), pp.136-141.
Green, C., Sutton Hoo: The Excavation of a Royal Ship-Burial (Merlin 1963, 1968, 1988).
Hoggett, R., The Archaeology of the East Anglian Conversion. (Woodbridge 2010).
Plunkett, S.J., Sutton Hoo (National Trust 2002).
Pollington, S., The Mead-Hall. The feasting tradition in Anglo-Saxon England (Anglo-Saxon Books 2003).
Pollington, S., Anglo-Saxon Burial Mounds (Anglo-Saxon Books 2008).
Speake, G., Anglo-Saxon Animal Art (Oxford 1980).
Webster, L. & J.Backhouse (eds.), The Making of England. Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900 (London 1991).
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