Sutton Hoo

Sutton Hoo is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating to the 6th and the 7th centuries CE and is located in Woodbridge,Suffolk,in England.One contained a ship burial including a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artefacts.Other sites had produced significant finds, been looted.                                           The ship-burial, probably dating from the early 7th century,was excavated in 1939 after the investigation of the  archaeologist Basil Brown.                                                                                                                 In the centre of the ship was a chamber with an enormous coffin and all the belongings of someone important.                                                                                                                                                    In Saxon times it was believed that a king, a prince or a great warriorneeded all his belonging for his new life in the next world.The mystery of Sutton Hoo is that no evidence of a body was found!