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During the excavation of a 7th-century ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England, archaeologists discovered a helmet (reconstruction pictured) that is widely associated with King Rædwald of East Anglia.
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Ship burial
Burial in which a ship or boat is used
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Sutton Hoo
Archaeological site in Suffolk, England
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Sutton Hoo helmet
Decorated Anglo-Saxon helmet
The Sutton Hoo helmet is a decorated Anglo-Saxon helmet found during a 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial. It was thought to be buried around the years c. 620–625 AD and is widely associated with an Anglo-Saxon leader, King Rædwald of East Anglia; its elaborate…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Rædwald of East Anglia
King of East Anglia (ruled c. 599–624)
Rædwald, also written as Raedwald or Redwald, was a king of East Anglia, an Anglo-Saxon kingdom which included the present-day English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. He was the son of Tytila of East Anglia and a member of the Wuffingas dynasty, who were the first kings of the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)