The Sutton Hoo burial was discovered in 1939 after exploration of largest burial mound at Edith Pretty's estate at Suffolk. Inside the mound, the imprint of a 27-metre-long, decayed ship, studded with iron rivets containing burial chamber was found. The burial took place in early AD 600s, when Sutton Hoo belonged to East Anglia, one of competing Anglo - Saxon kingdoms. Sutton Hoo is the most significant find from early medieval Europe, also the richest, containing many artifacts of exquisite craftsmanship, probably commemorating a person of extreme wealth or high status, possibly an Anglo-Saxon King of East Anglia.
The Sutton Hoo burial was discovered in 1939 after exploration of largest burial mound at Edith Pretty's estate at Suffolk. Inside the mound, the imprint of a 27-metre-long, decayed ship, studded with iron rivets containing burial chamber was found. The burial took place in early AD 600s, when Sutton Hoo belonged to East Anglia, one of competing Anglo - Saxon kingdoms. Sutton Hoo is the most significant find from early medieval Europe, also the richest, containing many artifacts of exquisite craftsmanship, probably commemorating a person of extreme wealth or high status, possibly an Anglo-Saxon King of East Anglia.