The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial; a Handbook
R.L.S. Bruce-Mitford

The summer of 1939 saw the archaeological find of an undisturbed Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo. This book details its excavation, and describes and illustrates its contents. The results of many years’ research at the British Museum are summarized

Sutton Hoo is the site of two early medieval cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th centuries near Woodbridge, in Suffolk, England. Archeologists have been excavating the area since 1938. One cemetery had an undisturbed ship burial with a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artefacts. Most of these objects are now held by the British Museum Scholars believe Rædwald of East Anglia is the most likely person to have been buried in the ship. The site is important in establishing the history of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia  as well as illuminating the early Anglo-Saxon period which lacked historical documentation.