Long live the mystery of Sutton Hoo

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: February 23, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

There are not many cartoons on the subject of archaeology, but a good one was published last year. It had two drawings, the first showing a tiny piece of pottery with the caption "Archaeological Find". The second drawing showed an ancient village with detailed houses and intricately dressed people weaving, cooking, hunting and trading. The caption read "Archaeological Reconstruction Based

on Find".

Archaeology is often a work of the imagination as much as an exact science, and I was reminded of this again when visiting the site of Sutton Hoo last week. What you see at Sutton Hoo is an open ...

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