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| In Suffolk, England in 1938, the owner of the Sutton Hoo estate gained the services of a local archaeologist in order to excavate several of the twenty burial mounds on the estate. What would be discovered there would prove to be arguably the most important Anglo-Saxon site ever found on British soil and would provide such a dazzling array of grave goods of such beauty and quality that it would have some experts revising their ideas of the period of time known as the "Dark Ages." | ||||
| The 6th and early 7th Century burial site would shed new light on a time in England's history when Pagan beliefs were waning and Christianity was on the rise. A time where legend and fact are blurred and uncertain. It would draw comparisons to the epic of Beowulf and conjure visions of Saxon kings and heroes. | ||||
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