![]() He may have held power over neighbouring kingdoms too, which may have earned him a good send off.” We can’t name that king for certain, but a popular candidate is Rædwald, who ruled the kingdom of East Anglia around this time in the early seventh century. “It’s this effort, coupled with the quality and the quantity of the grave goods from all over the known world at that time, that has made people think that an Anglo-Saxon king may have been buried here. Sue Brunning, the Curator of Early Medieval European Collections at the British Museum, speaks about the significance of Brown’s find on the museum’s website. People of high status were buried in mounds in this part of the country and there are a number of other mound burials in the area surrounding Sutton Hoo. It is also not the only burial in the area. ![]() ![]() The boat itself is 27 meters in length and had been an actual sea-going ship, not just a representation of one. However, others point out that no shroud ties or bodily adornments have been found, which one might expect if the body had simply decomposed. Those findings suggest that the body had succumbed to natural causes of decay. There was a human-shaped space at the center of the burial site but experts are confident that this was not simply a cenotaph, but an actual burial, since there are traces of phosphates in the soil indicative of the presence of a corpse. The one thing that they did not find was a body. Sutton Hoo helmet – Image credit: Joyofmuseums – CC BY-SA 4.0
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