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Replica of the helmet from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial
Replica of the helmet from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial
Credit: Gernot Keller

Sutton Hoo, near Woodbridge, in Suffolk, is the site of two 6th- and early 7th-century cemeteries. One contained an undisturbed ship burial including a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artefacts of outstanding art-historical and archaeological significance, now held in the British Museum in London.