CiNii Books - The Age of Sutton Hoo : the seventh century in north-western Europe

The age of Sutton Hoo runs from the fifth to the eighth century AD -a dark and difficult age, where hard evidence is rare, but glittering and richly varied. Myths, king-lists, place-names, sagas, palaces, belt-buckles, middens andgraves 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 fromthe centre of a ninety-foot-long ship buried on remote Suffolk heathland. Included in this volume is the 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.

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Part 1 East Anglia: before Sutton Hoo - structures of power and society, C.J. Scull
late Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlement pattern, J. Newman
Snape Anglo-Saxon cemetery, W. Filmer-Sankey
a chronology for Suffolk place-names, M. Gelling
Beowulf and the East Anglian royal pedigree, S. Newton
kings, gesiths and thegns, H. Loyn. Part 2 England: burial practice, H. Geake
7th-century cremation burial in Asthall Barrow, Oxfordshire, T.M. Dickinson and G. Speake
Anglo-Saxon symbolism, J.D. Richards
Anglo-Saxon weapon burial rite, H. Harke
royal power and royal symbols in "Beowulf", B. Raw
Christianity in Southumbria,, Jane Stevenson
Anglo-Saxon vocabulary, J. Roberts. Part 3 North-Western Europe: western and northern Britain, L. Alcock
Pictland, S.M. Foster
Frankish hegemony in England, I.N. Wood
royal burial among the Franks, E. James
the undiscovered grave of King Clovis, P. Perin
social change around AD600, G. Hassall
the Royal Cemetery at Borre, Vestfold (Norway), B. Myhre
the Scandinavian character of Anglian England, J. Hines
human sacrifice in the late pagan period, H. Ellis Davidson. Postscript: the Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Sutton Hoo, M.O.H. Carver.

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Comparative studies on the age of Sutton Hoo (5c - 8c) with English and European focus, plus summary of the latest site excavations. `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 evidence is 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.

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