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Издательство Британского музея, 1986 г. - 128 с. ISBN: 9780714105758 Книга рассказывает об истории раскопок захоронений в Саттон Ху и реставрационных работах. Представлены в фотографиях, рисунках и подробных описаниях наиболее значимые находки - комплекс вооружения, ювелирные украшения, бытовые предметы. The Sutton Hoo site is one of the most important archaeological discoveries ever made in Britain, and arguably the world. The summer of 1939 saw one of the most exciting archaeological finds ever dug from British soil, an undisturbed Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo, near Woodbridge in Suffolk. The ship, nearly 30m long, had been dragged uphill from the estuary of the River Deben to a royal gravefield and buried beneath a large circular mound. Amidships, in a textile-hung chamber, a sumptous burial was laid out unique in its glittering wealth of jewellery and unrivalled in the variety of objects that had been selected to represent every facet of the dead man's life. Gold and garnet jewellery, silver from the eastern Mediterranean, drinking vessels with silver gilt fittings, a magnificent helmet and parade shield, a lyre and sceptre were amongst the spectacular finds excavate

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Author

Evans, Angela Care

Publisher

Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780714105758

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Archaeology

Rating

3.91 / 5 (21 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14