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The face of Anglo-Saxon England may have Danish origins. Ever since the Sutton Hoo ship burial and its wealth of artifacts were discovered in the late 1930s, the archaeological consensus has pointed ...

A sixth-century Byzantine bucket, painstakingly reconstructed from fragments discovered at the Sutton Hoo archaeological site, likely held the cremated remains of an “important person”, according to ...

The so-called “Bromeswell Bucket,” discovered decades ago, recently underwent a micro-excavation. Archaeologists made a shocking discovery in a sixth-century copper bucket found several decades ago at ...

An ancient stamp unearthed by a metal detectorist suggests the Sutton Hoo was actually made in Denmark, and not Sweden as previously thought. The Anglo-Saxon helmet, dated to the 7th century, is one ...

For decades, it was thought those interred at the Anglo-Saxon burial mounds of Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, were lavish Kings buried with their riches. But a leading Anglo-Saxon expert has now suggested it ...

Peter Pentz, a curator at the National Museum of Denmark, sees many similarites between the stamp and the Sutton Hoo helmet. John Fhær Engedal Nissen / The National Museum of Denmark Two years ago, ...

A "princely" grave of a horse buried alongside two people has been discovered by archaeologists working on one of Britain's biggest digs. The excavation is being carried out by Oxford Cotswold ...