spoon - British Museum
WEBspoon. Museum number. 1939,1010.89. Description. Silver spoon of late classical type, with a moulded handle joined to the oval bowl by a vertically set disc. This disc has a rib extending along the back of the bowl. The handle is thin and rectangular, and ends in a terminal knop with two bands of beading preceding it.
Sutton Hoo - Wikipedia
WEBSutton Hoo is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th centuries near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. Archaeologists have been excavating the area since 1938, when an undisturbed ship burial containing a wealth …
The Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo - British Museum
WEBThe iconic Sutton Hoo helmet was wrapped in cloth and laid near the left side of the dead person's head. It's a piece of truly breathtaking artistry, functional and beautiful, with a vaulted cap and deep cheek-pieces. The helmet is covered in complicated imagery, including fighting and dancing warriors, and fierce creatures.
Silver bowls and spoons from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo
WEBSilver bowls and spoons from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo. The Sutton Hoo ship burial contains the largest quantity of silver ever discovered in a grave. The silver items were all made in...
Sutton Hoo purse-lid - Wikipedia
WEBSutton Hoo is a series of 6th-7th century burial mounds found in Suffolk, England. The first and also the largest mound, originally excavated in 1939 by Basil Brown, contained a 90-foot-long (27 m) ship, and is supposedly the burial site of Rædwald, the leader of the Wuffing dynasty.
Sutton Hoo: Anglo-Saxon ship burial — Google Arts & Culture
WEBIn 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War, an archaeologist named Basil Brown excavated the largest of 18 burial mounds in the grounds of a country house at Sutton Hoo, eastern...
Silver bowls and spoons from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo
WEBDetails. Title: Silver bowls and spoons from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo. Location: British Museum, London, UK. Physical Dimensions: Bowls and spoons; silver; diameter: 22.5 cm (bowls),...
The Byzantine Silver Bowls in the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial and …
WEBJul 22, 2014 · Under the silver bowls, their handles projecting, were two silver spoons of Byzantine type…with the names ‘Saulos’ and ‘Paulos’ (Saul and Paul) in Greek characters. Like the so-called baptismal spoons which they were found overlapping, these bowls are of Eastern Mediterranean origin, and were probably manufactured in the eastern ...
Sutton Hoo - World Archaeology
WEBSep 3, 2009 · A bronze bowl, a huge silver dish, a set of silver bowls, and two silver spoons – all Byzantine – showed a man of taste, well connected. Drinking horns, bottles and cups, gaming pieces and a lyre, three bronze hanging-bowls, and various buckets and cauldrons spoke of feasting and drinking in the mead-hall.
Sutton Hoo and Europe - British Museum
WEBIts unparalleled collections range from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea, and from North Africa to Scandinavia. The gallery's centrepiece is the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk – one of the most spectacular and important discoveries in British archaeology.