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To the seas of Suffolk, there to embark tomorrow with @jamiembrixton on a journey across England to Blackpool: coast to coast, as directly as we can, stopping off along the way to admire & explore what may lie in our path... 
And so it begins.
@jamiembrixton kneels in admiration before the spectacle of the river Deben, as it meets the North Sea. 2 Martello towers stand on sentry in the distance. #CoastToCoast
@jamiembrixton kneels in admiration before the spectacle of the river Deben, as it meets the North Sea. 2 Martello towers stand on sentry in the distance. #CoastToCoast
Bawdsey Manor: built in 1886 by thé splendidly named art collector & Liberal MP, Sir William Cuthbert Quilter; requisitioned in WW1; bought in 1936 by the Air Ministry to serve as a centre for radar research. Amazingly, it continued as a RAF base into the 90s. So Dr Who…
Next to a roundabout nr Burford, on the main road btw Oxford & Cheltenham, is Asthall barrow, where a man was buried with his horse in the early C7th, contemporary with the mounds at #SuttonHoo. He was buried with a copper bowl, prob from the east mediterranean ... 1/
... a silver cup, a board game, Frankish pottery and this gilded copper strap fitting, now @AshmoleanMuseum AN1923.773. 2/
And here's a film from the barrow itself:
With the huge interest in all things #SuttonHoo at the moment, and because the exhibition spaces here and the @britishmuseum are currently closed, we are bringing some of the objects from the Great Ship Burial to you via social media! First up is of course the helmet... (1/6)
(2/6) For many this the most iconic object discovered at #SuttonHoo but its importance was not realised at first & this may be why it didn’t feature in #TheDig. It was discovered as over 500 rusted fragments.
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(3/6) At the time of discovery only one other Anglo-Saxon helmet, the Benty Grange example, had been recorded in England. With the declaration of war, the objects were quickly moved to the safety of a dis-used London Underground tunnel with little time to study them further.
#TheDig has been causing quite a buzz this past week and we thought it would be a good time to revisit two archaeological digs that uncovered intriguing burials at our churches. So leave #SuttonHoo behind for now and come with us to Sutterby in Lincolnshire ...
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In 2015, a skeleton was found beyond the west wall of the church. Two femurs protrude, with hands clasped in front the the pelvis. These bones were radiocarbon dated to approximately 1050 - the very end of the era of Anglo Saxon rule, before the Norman Conquest of 1066.
Evidence of a church from this date hasn’t been found but it may have been a timber church of which all traces are now lost. The earliest building archaeology here dates to the 12thC - a rough stone foundation built directly on top of the older burial & an existing north doorway.
