Mound-building and state-building: a wider context for the Sutton Hoo burials

Overlooking the famous excavation of Mound 1 at Sutton Hoo. Recent excavations have uncovered surprising later aspects of the cemetery’s later use. (Photo: Sutton Hoo Archive)
Sutton Hoo may be best known for the lavish Anglo-Saxon ship burials uncovered there in the 1930s – but the campaigns of 1983-2000 have told a different and even richer story. The royal burials sprang from an earlier cemetery, and were followed by dozens of graves of execution victims. Brought together in a new