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Britain's Famous Sutton Hoo Helmet May Have Come From Denmark, Not Sweden, New Discovery Suggests
Jan Hjort was using a metal detector to scan a field on the Danish island of Tåsinge when he discovered a small piece of ...
Metal detector find may rewrite history of 7th century helmet
Small decorative details on an iconic helmet belonging to “Britain’s Tutankhamen” could revise our understanding of early ...
Live Science on MSN2mon
Famous Sutton Hoo helmet may be clue that early Anglo-Saxons fought as mercenaries for Byzantine Empire, study suggests
These martial artifacts, in turn, suggested that the man interred in the ship burial at Sutton Hoo — possibly the early Anglo-Saxon king Raedwald — had brought back Byzantine armor after ...
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A Groundbreaking Find Challenges What We Know About the Iconic Sutton Hoo Helmet
Since its discovery in 1939, archaeologists have pointed to Sweden as the source of Sutton Hoo's haul. A Danish stamp says ...
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What did the Anglo-Saxons believe?
Anglo-Saxons believed in lucky charms ... Kings went into battle with priests, their armour and weaponry were carved with texts from the Bible which we know from the Staffordshire Hoard.
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The ghostly treasure ship of Sutton Hoo
The largest Anglo-Saxon ship burial ever discovered contained ... In the 1990s, a warrior noble in full armor was found buried alongside his horse. Since one-third of the Sutton Hoo site has ...