The Sutton Hoo Burial Ship
Introduced by Rupert Bruce-Mitford
Keeper of the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities,
British Museum
Speakers:
C. W. Phillips
Director of the Sutton Hoo Excavation
Harold Plenderleith
Keeper of the Research Laboratory at the British Museum
Rosemary Cramp
Lecturer in Anglo-Saxon Archaeology in the University of Durham
Christopher Hawkes
Professor of European Archaeology in the University of Oxford
In 1939 a Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk revealed a remarkable collection of grave goods which set archaeologists many interesting problems of preservation and interpretation.
Produced by John Irving