Age of Sutton Hoo

The Seventh Century in North-Western Europe (Revised)

By: M O H Carver

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Paperback | 1 November 1992

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The Age of Sutton Hoo runs from the fifth to the eighth century AD - the age which separates the fall of the Roman Empire from the emergence of the nation-states that have endured down to the present day. This is a dark and difficult age, where hard evidence is rare, but glittering and richly varied: 'myths, king-lists, placenames, sagas, settlements, runic inscriptions, palaces, belt-buckles, post-holes, middens and graves, ' says the editor, 'are all grist to our mill.'. This volume celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of that most famous burial of the early middle ages: the great treasure now in the British Museum, unearthed from the centre of a ninety-foot-long ship buried in the sand beneath a mound on remote Suffolk heathland at Sutton Hoo. It also marks the end of the major campaign of excavations carried out there over the past decade, which involved the widest possible range of disciplines. The scholars whose work is gathered here represent, together with Martin Carver's concluding chapter summarising the results of the latest excavations, the current state of knowledge about this extraordinary site; that it still has secrets to reveal is shown by the last-minute discovery of a striking burial of a young noble with his horse and grave goods.

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Comprehensive and lavish... [the] volume's twenty-four papers provide not only an unrivalled and tantalizing preview of the most recent finds at Sutton Hoo, but also a survey of the whole context of the burial, local, national and international. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW [J R Maddicott] The Sutton Hoo `princely' burials play a pivotal role in any modern discussion of Germanic kingship. EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE A valuable interim report on the 1983-92 excavation... most exciting may be the parallels suggesed from Merovingian and Scandinavian Europe. A major contribution to the Sutton Hoo literature. CHOICE A major reassessment of the political and economic context of this burial ground-a very important book. MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY A book clearly aimed at academics and university students, [but] of value to anyone seriously interested in early Anglo-Saxon England.. Martin Carver's succinct account of Sutton Hoo...explain[s] the burials in ways which go beyond traditional historical archaeological interpretation. HISTORY TODAY

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Preface
List of Plates
List of Figures
East Anglia in the Age of Sutton Hoo
Before Sutton Hoo: structures of power and society in early East Anglia	p. 3
The Late Roman and Anglo-Saxon Settlement Pattern in the Sandlings of Suffolk	p. 25
Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery: the current state of knowledge	p. 39
A Chronology for Suffolk Place-Names	p. 53
Beowulf and the East Anglian Royal Pedigree	p. 65
Kings, Gesiths and Thegns	p. 75
England in the Age of Sutton Hoo
Burial Practice in Seventh- and Eighth-Century England	p. 83
The Seventh-Century Cremation Burial in Asthall Barrow, Oxfordshire: a reassessment	p. 95
Anglo-Saxon Symbolism	p. 131
Changing Symbols in a Changing Society: the Anglo-Saxon weapon burial rite in the seventh century	p. 149
Royal Power and Royal Symbols in Beowulf	p. 167
Christianity in Sixth- and Seventh-Century Southumbria	p. 175
Anglo-Saxon Vocabulary as a Reflection of Material Culture	p. 185
North-Western Europe in the Age of Sutton Hoo
Message from the Dark Side of the Moon: western and northern Britain in the age of Sutton Hoo	p. 205
The State of Pictland in the Age of Sutton Hoo	p. 217
Frankish Hegemony in England	p. 235
Royal Burials among the Franks	p. 243
The Undiscovered Grave of King Clovis	p. 255
Social Change around A.D. 600: an Austrasian perspective	p. 265
Kingdoms, Ethnicity and Material Culture: Denmark in a European perspective	p. 279
The Royal Cemetery at Borre, Vestfold: a Norwegian centre in a European periphery	p. 301
The Scandinavian Character of Anglian England: an update	p. 315
Human sacrifice in the Late Pagan Period in North-Western Europe	p. 331
Postscript: The Site of Sutton Hoo on the Completion of Fieldwork
The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Sutton Hoo: an interim report	p. 343
Bibliography	p. 373
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