Raedwald's return Anne Campbell Dixon visits the Sutton Hoo Saxon site in Suffolk

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: August 25, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

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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