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Raedwald's return Anne Campbell Dixon visits the Sutton Hoo Saxon site in Suffolk
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We have all heard of the Sutton Hoo treasure, the richest and most
spectacular hoard of grave goods ever discovered in the British
Isles, but how many of us could say where Sutton Hoo is? Very few, I
think - until this year, when some of the artefacts returned to their
burial-place, to be seen in their proper context for the first time
in 60 years.
Sutton Hoo is a private estate, overlooking the River Deben, near
the Suffolk coast. Since 1998 it has belonged to the National Trust;
but in 1938, when excavation of the estate's mysterious burial mounds
began, it was owned by Mrs Edith May ...
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