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Khan Academy: The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial

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The most famous Anglo-Saxon treasures in the Museum come from the Sutton Hoo burial site in Suffolk. Here mysterious grassy mounds covered a number of ancient graves. In one particular grave, belonging to an important Anglo-Saxon warrior, some astonishing objects were buried, but there is little in the grave to make it clear who was buried there. The treasures under Mound 1 would turn out to be the most amazing set of Anglo-Saxon objects ever found.

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