Treasures from Sutton Hoo

Every purchase supports the British Museum A beautifully designed introduction to the most spectacular hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found 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