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date: 24 January 2021

Sutton Hoo buriallocked

(early 7th cent.)
  • J. Campbell

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Sutton Hoo burial (early 7th cent.), is named from the place where a king or aristocrat probably lay buried in the barrow known as mound 1. Sutton Hoo, in the extreme south-east of modern Suffolk, is situated on a high bluff on the left bank of the ...

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