The term Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern one ... the country was divided into four kingdoms - Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia and Wessex. Wessex was the only one of these kingdoms to survive ...
But the early Anglo-Saxons were not Christians ... The Sutton Hoo treasure was dug up out of the ground in East Anglia, just a few weeks before the start of the Second World War in 1939 so ...
The site has become an important excavation site for research surrounding the East Anglia kingdom during the time of the Anglo-Saxons. The site, which consists of 20 burial mounds, is near a port ...
Other research has suggested Sutton Hoo could be the resting place of an Anglo-Saxon King, potentially Raedwald, who ruled the kingdom of East Anglia. Sue Brunning, Curator of Early Medieval ...