(Re)discovering the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial with Dr Sue Brunning, Curator, The British Museum 

WOW! Perhaps my favourite bit of "Dark Age" history that I thought I knew lots about. I have seen some of the amazing jewelry in real life at the Royal Armouries. But you have explained so much more about them. Amazing to think that there were no magnifying glasses or artificial lighting or small electric drills back then. The skill that must have been used is almost unbelievable. Thank you for this fascinating video.

Thank you both, so well done. And thank you Dr. Brunning for your love of all these artifacts, and your professional exploration of them.

Fantastic history! Yeah, I'm here after watching The Dig...a couple years ago :-) Those jeweled pyramids are amazing!!

As much as I have a genuine interest in history and archeology, I must admit most of the reason I watched this was Sue Brunning. She is a much more wonderful and lovely artefact (love archaic spelling) of humanity than any of the objects discussed herein ; )

Very interesting

Sutton Hoo is sjutton högar in westgeatish dialect. The saxons attacked the anglians who were strengthend by ships coming from west geatland in Sweden meaning Skepplanda and the oaktrees came from trees there which is found. These geats were building the first kingdom together with the anglians and the saxons approved that.

The jewels are of quite miraculous construction and achievement! This type of work appears elsewhere in the Anglo Saxon record, such as sword pommels. Our present King has a 'retinue of warriors' too, the entire military establishment of the United Kingdom including specifically Royal regiments!

I’m not going to lie, I have a giant crush on Sue… 🥴 She’s so pretty and such an amazing mind. I mean, she’d most certainly be bored out of her mind if she met me but I could spend hours just asking her archeological questions and listening lolol

It catches my attention that among the objects in the treasure there is a lyre. A thousand years before, and at quite a long distance (I am referring to the southwest of Iberia in the Tartessian area), the lyre was also a common element which is represented among important dead people. I observe coincidences between cultures belonging to both areas. My idea is that these similarities are due to a common origin of both of them in Scandinavia. Now, what I would like to know is what underlying reason there is for this musical instrument, the lyre, to be one of the frequent elements accompanying the deceased. I would like to read comments about this topic. I would appreciate it.

Very interesting but lightweight, you refer to the ship as first thought to be Viking? then presumed Anglo-Saxon, as if these could only be the origin of the ship? which academics (which you represent) have also stated over the years, and no other origin can be possibly identified, well, that is total guff! as the whole Sutton Hoo find, gives distinct clues as to its origination, and it most probably was not Anglo-Saxon but British, (I have no idea why or how it got there but nevertheless) this is creepy from the authorities not wanting to see what they see?, but here are most/some of the problems with the find being Anglo-Saxon. 1. The site itself was laid out in an East West direction, clearly christian, and a boat grave, The British had a lot of boat graves, but the Anglo Saxons had very few we know of?. 2. The Iron rivets (which are totally ignored by authorities, and even some replicas of the SH ship leave them out?) Anglo Saxon ships use trenails or wood pegs to hold the "planks" together, while the British used Iron rivets as a boat building technique, just like the SH ship, see, clearly the ship was British? 3. The Purse gold work, the features shown on the "cover" have been shown to be about the story of Gilgamesh from Uruk, middle east, which with the claimed British Ancestry from that part of the world would be known by the British but not by the Anglo Saxons, (there is more involved explanation about the "decorations" I will not/cannot go into). 4. The Golden Spoons, nothing much is said about these, I think they are thought of as Anglo Saxon, but cannot be, as there are inscriptions on each handle including a christian cross, and as the Anglo Saxon were illiterate the could not have uses writing on artifacts. 5. The Decorated Golden Bowl, very nice, again said to be Anglo Saxon, but there is a "star of David" at the centre bottom of this bowl, it is around 8 petal flower similar to Egyptian or Chaldean designs, very much the part of the world the British originally emigrated from, and also there are 6 doves around the bottom these are an Hebrew symbol, again same pat of the world. 6. The remains of a Lyre musical instrument, very much looking like a British/Welsh musical instrument still in use today called a "Crwth" ,which could have middle eastern origins. 7. The Mask, this is the most famous thing about Sutton Hoo, wonderful metal work probably Anglo Saxon never had the skill to do, but the British certainly did, and it does not look like a Saxon or Angle? they are famous for having full beards, it looks British with a moustache, which the British/Welsh were known to have. 8. The overall Metal Working, is superb, but the Anglo Saxons never had that much expertise or fine detail work to do the fantastic work on all the gold/metal, but the British did have and for a very long time before. I use British but do mean Welsh as well, as the Anglo Saxons were Pagan illiterate newcomers, who you authorities are trying (with success) to push to the forefront, instead of being truthful about British heritage, you only want to see things your way, not as it is! So Re-Re discover the Sutton Hoo find, to tell what is there! not what you want to say about the find.

Did they have soldering irons then? And how do we know the Sutton who kings were not Indian.?