A 6th Century Byzantine bucket that has been pieced back together is believed to have been a cremation vessel, according to archaeologists. Fragments of the bucket were first discovered at Sutton Hoo, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavations and metal-detecting work at the site of a famous ship burial in Suffolk, England, have revealed missing pieces that ...

Helen Gittos, a professor of medieval history at Oxford University, in the U.K., has developed a new theory regarding the identity of the remains found at a famous burial site near Suffolk, England.

Hundreds of people gathered at Sutton Hoo to celebrate the anniversary of the famous ship being buried Hundreds of people visited the site of where an Anglo-Saxon ship was buried to celebrate its ...

Archaeologists recently discovered the purpose of a mysterious 1,500-year-old bucket at one of England's most historic sites – and it wasn't pleasant. The National Trust released a statement about the ...

A sixth-century Byzantine bucket, painstakingly reconstructed from fragments discovered at the Sutton Hoo archaeological site, likely held the cremated remains of an “important person”, according to ...

In July, 1937, Edith Pretty, a wealthy widow and local magistrate, attended a flower show in Woodbridge, a picturesque, red-brick town on the Suffolk coast, in search of archeological advice. Pretty, ...

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