In the year of 1939 the perspective of Anglo-Saxon history would be forever changed as the discovery of the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial was founded. The collective artifacts found at the burial revealed a diverse culture of the Anglo-Saxon people, a past existence uncharted by modern civilization. The Sutton Hoo Ship burial disclosed unanswered questions about the culture of the Anglo-Saxon people, as well as proving what society already knew of the ethnology, further expanding our present-day knowledge of the East Anglia Kingdom.
It was the year of 1939 when Mrs. Edith Pretty, the proprietor of the land in Sutton Hoo, Suffolk where the famous Anglo – Saxon ships were discovered, asked archeologist Basil Brown to explore the strange mounds that just so happened to be located on her property. The ship was believed to have sunk in the…show more content… Researchers were able to date the burial of these ships back to the years of 625 AD and 630 AD through the coins. The silver wear and jewelry found gave insight on the culture of the Anglo-Saxon people. Analyst's concluded that they were descendants of the Germanic tribes that lived life through Lords and Kings. The iron helmet was thought to have come from a leading figure of East Anglia, perhaps belonging to a King. Most of the burial mounds had been ransacked after the sinking had happened leaving only a few of the mounds untouched and with their belongings, but what some of these burials showed were the traditions of the Anglo-Saxon people. According to the Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, mound seventeen contained a young soldier who had been buried with his sword, shield, and his war horse. The finding of the boys buried with their animals lead researchers to believe that these people stemmed from the Pagan Heritage, a former religion of
