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A Seemingly Ordinary Bucket Turned Out to Be a 6th-Century Funeral Urn From the Dark Ages and No One Saw It Coming
Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk, is no ordinary archaeological site. Discovered in 1939, it stunned historians with its 7th-century ...
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Rare 1,500-year-old Byzantine bucket was used to hold human bones in 6th-century England
The royal burial site of Sutton Hoo in the county of Suffolk in eastern England was first discovered in 1939. A warrior Anglo ...
Archaeologists unravel mystery of buried Byzantine bucket
Known as the Bromeswell bucket, the artifact found at England’s Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon site probably held the cremated ...
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Sutton Hoo mystery is SOLVED after 1,400 years: Byzantine bucket unearthed at the historic site 'contained remains of important person', archaeologists say
We knew that this bucket would have been a rare and prized possession back in Anglo-Saxon times ... process used and what was on the funeral pyre. 'I'm hopeful that further analysis will ...
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Scientists solve mystery of 1,400-year-old bucket unearthed at Sutton Hoo
“We knew that this bucket would have been a rare and prized possession back in Anglo-Saxon times ... including the composition of the funeral pyre. While the sex of the individual couldn ...
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Byzantine bucket unearthed at Sutton Hoo ‘contained remains of important person’
Angus Wainwright, National Trust archaeologist, said: “We knew that this bucket would have been a rare and prized possession back in Anglo-Saxon ... what was on the funeral pyre.
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Byzantine bucket unearthed at Sutton Hoo ‘contained remains of important person’
Angus Wainwright, National Trust archaeologist, said: “We knew that this bucket would have been a rare and prized possession back in Anglo-Saxon times ... the cremation process and what was on the ...