my buried history BOOKS WHEN JOHN PRESTON DISCOVERED HIS AUNT HAD HELPED UNEARTH ANGLO-SAXON GOLD AT SUTTON HOO, HE DECIDED TO DIG FURTHER. HE UNCOVERED A STORY OF INTRIGUE AND HEARTBREAK THAT PROVIDED PERFECT MATERIAL FOR HIS NEW NOVEL From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: April 29, 2007| Author: JOHN PRESTON | Copyright 2007 The Sunday Telegraph London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

JOURNALISTS TEND TO HAVE AN AMBIVALENT attitude to letters from readers. On the one hand it can be gratifying to have provoked a reaction. On the other, there's always the possibility that the correspondent may be mildly - or not so mildly - unhinged. Nearly three years ago, when I received a letter from a woman claiming to be my long-lost second cousin, I had no hesitation in sticking her in the latter category. Very guardedly, I wrote back asking her why she thought we might be related. Bac...

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	my buried history BOOKS WHEN JOHN PRESTON DISCOVERED HIS AUNT HAD HELPED UNEARTH ANGLO-SAXON GOLD AT SUTTON HOO, HE DECIDED TO DIG FURTHER. HE UNCOVERED A STORY OF INTRIGUE AND HEARTBREAK THAT PROVIDED PERFECT MATERIAL FOR HIS NEW NOVEL The Sunday Telegraph London ; JOURNALISTS TEND TO HAVE AN AMBIVALENT attitude to letters from readers. On the one hand it can be gratifying to have provoked a reaction. On the other, there's always the possibility that the correspondent may be mildly - or not so mildly - unhinged. Nearly three years ago, when I received a
	Page one of history: see where pagan kings were laid to rest FAMILY OUTING Sutton Hoo, Suffolk The Independent on Sunday ; The venue Back in 1939 in a field overlooking the River Deben at Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge in Suffolk, local archaeologist Basil Brown found a 90-foot long burial ship that had lain undisturbed for 1,300 years. It was one of the most important archaeological finds in British history. Within the
	The wartime secrets of Sutton Hoo The Sunday Telegraph London ; I thought that, in the circumstances, I would have to dedicate this column to the outbreak of war. Not the current war, since there will be plenty of that on other pages, but to the outbreak of the Second World War. I am not going to offer any great historical parallels but simply attempt to
	Delicately exposing the past The Spectator ; THE DIG by John Preston Viking, 16.99, pp. 230, ISBN 9780670914913 . 13.59 (plus 2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 John Preston's fourth novel is a quiet dramatisation of the famous Sutton Hoo dig of 1939. Known as 'the British Tutankhamun', the excavation in Suffolk uncovered several Anglo-Saxon
	Long live the mystery of Sutton Hoo The Sunday Telegraph London ; 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
	The king and his cult: the axe-hammer from Sutton Hoo and its implications for the concept of sacral leadership in early medieval Europe.(Research) Antiquity ; Mound 1 at Sutton Hoo, erected on the banks of the River Deben to commemorate an East Anglian leader during the first half of the seventh century AD, covered one of the most lavishly furnished graves known from Europe. The burial is set apart not only by the material wealth of the grave
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	Raedwald's return Anne Campbell Dixon visits the Sutton Hoo Saxon site in Suffolk The Sunday Telegraph London ; 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
	Martin Carver. Sutton Hoo: a seventh-century princely burial ground and its context.(Book review) Antiquity ; MARTIN CARVER. Sutton Hoo: a seventh-century princely burial ground and its context (Report of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London 69). x1+536 pages, 223 figures, 13 colour & 63 b&w plates, 104 tables. 2005. London: The British Museum; 0-7141-2322-6 hardback 95 [pounds
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