Sutton Hoo
July 9, 2004


My final stop was at Sutton Hoo, in the Southeast of England. From the ground, the site appears to be a simple collection of mounds, but in 1939 the largest discovery in Anglo-Saxon Archaeology was made under "Mound 1". Underneath was buried a 90-foot boat with a king at its center, undisturbed with all his armor and household accouterments. Constructed in the early 7th century, the Sutton Hoo burial mounds represent the growing power of kings and the formation of royal authority which last to this day.


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