Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
Sutton Hoo : burial ground of kings? / Martin Carver.
Author
Carver, M. O. H.
[Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : British Museum Press, ©1998.
Description
xii, 195 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Availability
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
Firestone Library - Stacks
DA155 .C38 1998
Browse related items
Request
Details
Subject(s)
Anglo-Saxons
—
Kings and rulers
—
Death and burial
[Browse]
Excavations (Archaeology)
—
England
—
Suffolk
[Browse]
Ships, Medieval
—
England
—
Suffolk
[Browse]
Anglo-Saxons
—
England
—
Suffolk
[Browse]
Ship burials
—
England
—
Suffolk
[Browse]
Sutton Hoo Ship Burial (England)
[Browse]
East Anglia (England)
—
Kings and rulers
—
Death and burial
[Browse]
Suffolk (England)
—
Antiquities
[Browse]
Summary note
The Sutton Hoo ship-burial is one of the most significant archaeological finds ever made in Europe and arguably in the world. It lies in a site that contains all the elements of archaeological mystery and romance: seventeen burial mounds, buried treasure, great works of art, sacrificed horses, and evidence of human execution. In the first accessible account of the whole story to date, Martin Carver explains what we know of Sutton Hoo burial ground, in which the leaders of the Dark Age kingdom of East Anglia signaled their belief in a pagan and maritime kingdom independent of the Christian Europe of the day. In Sutton Hoo, Martin Carver, director of the most recent excavations, tells the story, not only of one of the most dramatic historic places in early England but of the fifty years of its exploration - a history of British archaeology.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface: Introducing Sutton Hoo
pt. 1. Sutton Hoo Story
Investigations
1. Mrs Pretty digs up a Ship
2. British Museum's Treasure
3. Message of the Mounds
pt. 2. Sutton Hoo Story
Interpretations
4. Putting down Roots
5. Burial Ground of Kings?
6. Gallows and the Gentry
7. Monument for the Millennium
8. Open Forum Fifty questions
and a few answers. Digest of Evidence
An inventory of burials and finds so far encountered at Sutton Hoo
Location of Sutton Hoo.
Show 13 more Contents items
ISBN
0714105910
9780714105918
OCLC
39215745
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information