The Sutton Hoo Helmet

Sonja Marzinzik

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British Museum Press
17 April 2007

History; Archaeology by period & region

Series: Objects in Focus

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A warrior's face - the strong brows inlaid with red garnets, the nose and mouth gilded and its surface tinned a silvery colour - this is how the Sutton Hoo helmet once appeared to those who saw it. Beautifully crafted and visually stunning, it would have inspired awe. But it was also fully capable of protecting its wearer in battle. This book explains how it was discovered together with other priceless treasures including a ship in the great mound at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, by the archaeologist Basil Brown in the late 1930s. He was employed by the owner of the estate, Mrs Edith Pretty, who generously donated the whole find to the British Museum. After painstaking reconstruction, experts were able to compare this very rare helmet to the few others dating to the same period, and also to speculate for whom it might have been created. Today, some 1,400 years after it was buried, it is the centrepiece for the Sutton Hoo burial exhibit in the British Museum - a remarkable testament to Anglo- Saxon power and artistic skill.

By: Sonja Marzinzik
Imprint: British Museum Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 160g
ISBN: 9780714123257
ISBN 10: 0714123250
Series: Objects in Focus
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 17 April 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sonja Marzinzik is curator of the early medieval collections of the British Isles in the Department of Prehistory & Europe at the British Museum.