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The "Provisional Guide" to the Sutton Hoo ship-burial, published by the Trustees of the British Museum in 1947, has printed ten impressions and sold over 20,000 copies. The fifth impression (1956) incorporated corrections and additions. However, twenty years have elapsed since the "Guide's" first appearance, and a great deal has happened, both in Germanic archaeology and in the definition and assimilation of the Sutton Hoo discoveries. The passage of time has made still more apparent the European pre-eminence and unique import of what Sir Thomas Kendrick called 'the most marvellous find in the archaeological annals of England'. The Museum's definitive publication, in four volumes, is well advanced, and a fresh account is now needed to replace the "Provisional Guide". This "Handbook" has accordingly been prepared for students and the public. It follows the general lines of the old "Provisional Guide", but the text is substantially rewritten and enlarged, and is furnished with notes, concentrated at the end. Almost all the plates and figures are new and their number is substantially increased. Four colour-plates have been introduced. Some illustrations familiar in the "Provisional Gu

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Author

Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-Mitford; British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities

Publisher

Trustees of the British Museum

Published

1968

Language

EN

ISBN

9780714113319

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Travel, History, Anthropology

Updated

2026-03-24