About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 95. Chapters: Medieval European objects in the British Museum, Prehistoric objects in the British Museum, Romano-British objects in the British Museum, Lindow Man, Sutton Hoo, Lewis chessmen, Hoxne Hoard, Royal Gold Cup, Seax of Beagnoth, Sweet Track, Holy Thorn Reliquary, Franks Casket, Cuerdale Hoard, Vindolanda tablets, Dunstable Swan Jewel, Lycurgus Cup, Mildenhall Treasure, Milton Keynes Hoard, Frome Hoard, Thetford Hoard, Risley Park Lanx, Mold cape, Vale of York Hoard, Winchester Hoard, Guisborough Helmet, Mechanical Galleon, Lothair Crystal, Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle, Swimming Reindeer, Witham Shield, Water Newton Treasure, Purse Cover from Sutton Hoo Burial, Wandsworth Shield, Penrith Hoard, Ribchester Helmet, Waterloo Helmet, Empress pepper pot, Little Thetford flesh-hook, Sedgeford Torc, Ain Sakhri lovers, Meyrick Helmet, Fuller Brooch, Ringlemere Cup, Ipswich Hoard, Shrewsbury Hoard, Hinton St Mary Mosaic, Fishpool Hoard, Snettisham Hoard, Canterbury Astrolabe Quadrant, Dunaverney flesh-hook, Staffordshire Moorlands Pan, Battersea Shield, Undley bracteate, Sheffield Cross, Oxborough Dirk. Excerpt: Sutton Hoo, near to Woodbridge, in the English county of Suffolk, is the site of two 6th and early 7th century cemeteries. One contained an undisturbed ship burial including a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artefacts of outstanding art-historical and archaeological significance, now held in the British Museum in London. Sutton Hoo is of a primary importance to early medieval historians because it sheds light on a period of English history which is on the margin between myth, legend and historical documentation. Use of the site culminated at a time when Raedwald, the ruler of the East Angles, held senior power among the English people and played a dynamic if ambiguous part in the establishment of Christian rulership in England..
