Sutton Hoo ship burial

In 1939 the self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown, digging for the landowner Edith Pretty, uncovered the imprint of a 27-metre ship under a Suffolk burial mound. Its chamber held a crested helmet, a great gold buckle and silver from Byzantium, most likely buried with Rædwald, king of the East Angles. The find showed that early Anglo-Saxon England was rich and widely connected.