Research Catalog

Title

The Sutton Hoo ship burial: a handbook, by R. L. S. Bruce-Mitford, keeper of British and medieval antiquities in the British Museum.

Author

British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities

Publication

London, Trustees of the British Museum, 1968.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bruce-Mitford, Rupert Leo Scott, 1914-
• Bruce-Mitford, Rupert Leo Scott, 1914-1994.

Description

85 p. 41 plates (4 fold.), illus., geneal. table, maps, plans.; 26 cm.

Subject

• Sutton Hoo Ship Burial (England)
• Anglo-Saxons > Kings and rulers > Death and burial
• Excavations (Archaeology) > England > Suffolk
• Anglo-Saxons > England > Suffolk
• Ship burials > England > Suffolk
• Ships, Medieval > England > Suffolk
• Archaeology, Medieval > England > Suffolk
• Suffolk (England) > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical references included in "Notes" p. 76-85.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Discovery -- II. The burial deposit -- III. The excavation of the ship and a reconstruction of the burial -- IV. The ship -- V. The nature of the burial and parallels to it -- VI. The coins and the date of burial -- VII. Who was he? -- VIII. The silver -- IX. The jewellery -- X. The Swedish connection -- XI. Conclusions.

ISBN

• 0714113255
• 0714113204 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^79362568^//r915

OCLC

• 43945
• SCSB-10296579

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library