The Age Of Sutton Hoo

Author : M. O. H. Carver
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0851153615

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The Age of Sutton Hoo by M. O. H. Carver Pdf

`The Sutton Hoo `princely' burials play a pivotal role in any modern discussion of Germanic kingship.'EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE The age of Sutton Hoo runs from the fifth to the eighth century AD - a dark and difficult age, where hard evidenceis rare, but glittering and richly varied. Myths, king-lists, place-names, sagas, palaces, belt-buckles, middens and graves are all grist to the archaeologist's mill. This book celebrates the anniversary of the discovery of that most famous burial at Sutton Hoo. Fifty years ago this great treasure, now in the British Museum, was unearthed from the centre of a ninety-foot-long ship buried on remote Suffolk heathland. Included in this volume are 23 wide-ranging essays on the Age of Sutton Hoo and director Martin Carver's summary of the latest excavations, which represent the current state of knowledge about this extraordinary site. That it still has secrets to reveal is shown by the last-minute discovery of a striking burial of a young noble with his horse and grave goods.M.O.H. CARVER is Professor of Archaeology at York University, and Director of the Sutton Hoo Research Project.

Author : M. O. H. Carver
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0812234553

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Sutton Hoo by M. O. H. Carver Pdf

Examines what the Sutton Hoo ship-burial site reveals about early England, describes the site's treasures and mysteries, and recounts the events surrounding its discovery.

Author : M. O. H. Carver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : 178327204X

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The Sutton Hoo Story by M. O. H. Carver Pdf

A definitive account of Sutton Hoo, its discovery, history and famed treasure.

Author : Gareth Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : 0714128252

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Treasures from Sutton Hoo by Gareth Williams Pdf

The objects unearthed in 1939 from an Anglo-Saxon ship-burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, rank among the most splendid treasures in the collection of the British Museum. Bringing together fine craftsmanship from England, Germany, Scandinavia, Alexandria and far Byzantium, the spectacular finds included gold and garnet jewellery, silverware, drinking vessels with silver-gilt fittings, a lyre and a sceptre, as well as the iconic helmet, all deliberately buried in the early seventh century as grave-goods for an important, though unidentified, warrior. The Sutton Hoo ship-burial was one of the most exciting discoveries ever made in British archaeology. This beautifully designed introduction to the treasure details the most significant pieces contained within it and explores the circumstances of its burial, discovery and excavation, as well as its lasting legacy and fame.

Author : Sonja Marzinzik
Publisher : British Museum Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015076181760

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The Sutton Hoo Helmet by Sonja Marzinzik Pdf

A warrior's face - the strong brows inlaid with red garnets, the nose and mouth gilded and its surface tinned a silvery colour - this is how the Sutton Hoo helmet once appeared to those who saw it. Beautifully crafted and visually stunning, it would have inspired awe. But it was also fully capable of protecting its wearer in battle. This book explains how it was discovered together with other priceless treasures including a ship in the great mound at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, by the archaeologist Basil Brown in the late 1930s. He was employed by the owner of the estate, Mrs Edith Pretty, who generously donated the whole find to the British Museum. After painstaking reconstruction, experts were able to compare this very rare helmet to the few others dating to the same period, and also to speculate for whom it might have been created. Today, some 1,400 years after it was buried, it is the centrepiece for the Sutton Hoo burial exhibit in the British Museum - a remarkable testament to Anglo- Saxon power and artistic skill.

Author : Calvin B. Kendall,Peter S. Wells
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : 1452901503

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Voyage to the Other World by Calvin B. Kendall,Peter S. Wells Pdf

Author : Norman Scarfe
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 184383068X

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Suffolk in the Middle Ages by Norman Scarfe Pdf

Norman Scarfe explores place names, the Sutton Hoo ship burial, the coming of Christianity, and the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, concluding with an evocative study of five Suffolk places - Southwold, Dunwich, Yoxford, and Wingfield and Fressingfield. The modern landscape of Suffolk is still essentially a medieval one, though much of it is even earlier: the five hundred medieval churches and ten thousand 'listed' houses 'of historic or architectural interest', and the 'Hundred'lanes going back at least to the tenth century, are often found to be set in a landscape created before the Roman conquest. Suffolk in the Middle Ages opens with a discussion of the earliest written records, the place-names, as a guide to settlement-patterns, including the setting of Sutton Hoo. Among the grave-goods found in that celebrated ship and discussed here was the whetstone-sceptre; asked to carry it from its showcase in the British Museum to the laboratory, the author acknowledges a closer feeling of involvement even than helping to re-open the ship in its mound in 1966. His explanation of the presence of the whetstone-sceptre, printed here, has never been challenged. The identification of a carved Anglo-Saxon cross at Iken in 1977 prompted the essay here on St Botolph and the coming of East Anglian Christianity. This leads to a consideration of the Danish invasion of East Anglia, and a reexamination of the posthumous victory of King Edmund and Christianity as portrayed in an imaginary Breckland warren on the front of this book. Scarfe's carefully reasoned argument that the Metropolitan Museum's famous walrusivory cross was made for the monks' choir at Bury has never been refuted. Life in Bury abbey is vividly reconstructed: it was the most richly documented flowering of the work of East Anglia's apostles, Felix and Fursa, which alsoled to the phenomenal establishment in Suffolk by 1086 of four hundred of the five hundred medieval churches. In four East Suffolk essays, Southwold, Dunwich, Yoxford and Wingfield are exposed to Norman Scarfe's interpretativeskills. He reveals a past few could have guessed at, often quite as curious as the 'Two Strange Tales' unravelled in his concluding pages.

Author : John Preston
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590517802

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The Dig by John Preston Pdf

THE BASIS FOR THE NETFLIX FILM STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, RALPH FIENNES, AND LILY JAMES A literary adventure that tells the story of a priceless buried treasure discovered in England on the eve of World War II In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. Mrs. Pretty, the widowed owner of the farm, has had her hunch confirmed that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. This fictional recreation of the famed Sutton Hoo dig follows three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure. As the war looms ever closer, engraved gold peeks through the soil, and each character searches for answers in the buried treasure. Their threads of love, loss, and aspiration weave a common awareness of the past as something that can never truly be left behind.

Author : Martin Carver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429829765

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Formative Britain by Martin Carver Pdf

Formative Britain presents an account of the peoples occupying the island of Britain between 400 and 1100 AD, whose ideas continue to set the political agenda today. Forty years of new archaeological research has laid bare a hive of diverse and disputatious communities of Picts, Scots, Welsh, Cumbrian and Cornish Britons, Northumbrians, Angles and Saxons, who expressed their views of this world and the next in a thousand sites and monuments. This highly illustrated volume is the first book that attempts to describe the experience of all levels of society over the whole island using archaeology alone. The story is drawn from the clothes, faces and biology of men and women, the images that survive in their poetry, the places they lived, the work they did, the ingenious celebrations of their graves and burial grounds, their decorated stone monuments and their diverse messages. This ground-breaking account is aimed at students and archaeological researchers at all levels in the academic and commercial sectors. It will also inform relevant stakeholders and general readers alike of how the islands of Britain developed in the early medieval period. Many of the ideas forged in Britain’s formative years underpin those of today as the UK seeks to find a consensus programme for its future.

Author : M. O. H. Carver,Martin Carver
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : 0851153410

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Sutton Hoo Research Committee Bulletins, 1983-1993 by M. O. H. Carver,Martin Carver Pdf

The early medieval ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, whose discovery in 1938 yielded such rich treasures, posed many questions about the history of England in the shadowy period from the 5th to the 11th century. This one-volume edition of the annual bulletins of the recent archaeological campaign (1983-92), directed by Martin Carver, shows how the dig succeeded in establishing a context for those earlier finds, extending knowledge of the culture and society of the age.

Author : Pam J. Crabtree
Publisher : Case Studies in Early Societie
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521885942

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Early Medieval Britain by Pam J. Crabtree Pdf

Traces the development of towns in Britain from late Roman times to the end of the Anglo-Saxon period using archaeological data.

Author : John Schofield
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Archaeologists
ISBN : 1842174096

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Great Excavations by John Schofield Pdf

Shaping the Archaeological Profession --

Author : Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-Mitford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : UOM:39015020702620

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The Sutton Hoo Ship-burial: Arms, armour and regalia by Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-Mitford Pdf

Author : Bernice Grohskopf
Publisher : Dissertation.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0595137903

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The Treasure of Sutton Hoo by Bernice Grohskopf Pdf

The Treasure of Sutton Hoo is the only book published in the USA about this significant excavation of an Anglo-Saxon king's ship burial. Priceless treasure found in the burial chamber, the finest collection of Anglo-Saxon craftsmanship in gold, silver and garnet, could have come only from a royal treasury.

Author : Marta Díaz-Guardamino,Leonardo García Sanjuán,David Wheatley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198724605

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The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman and Medieval Europe by Marta Díaz-Guardamino,Leonardo García Sanjuán,David Wheatley Pdf

The essays in this collection examine the life-histories of carefully chosen megalithic monuments, stelae and statue-menhirs, and rock art sites of various European and Mediterranean regions during the Iron Age and Roman and Medieval times. By focusing on the concrete interaction between people, monuments, and places, the volume offers an innovative outlook on a variety of debated issues. Prominent among these is the role of ancient remains in the creation, institutionalization, contestation, and negotiation of social identities and memories, as well as their relationship with political economy in early historic European societies.