Sutton Hoo: A Seventh Century Princely Burial Ground and its Context

by Martin Carver, Martin Carver

Sutton Hoo is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. This book offers a scholarly companion to the archaeological research and interpretation of Sutton Hoo. It studies the early medieval artefacts, the early medieval landscape and the environmental and prehistoric sequences.

672 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2005

About the author

Martin Oswald Hugh Carver, FSA, Hon FSA Scot is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of York, England, director of the Sutton Hoo Research Project and a leading exponent of new methods in excavation and survey. He specialises in the archaeology of early Medieval Europe. He has an international reputation for his excavations at Sutton Hoo, on behalf of the British Museum and the Society of Antiquaries and at the Pictish monastery at Portmahomack Tarbat, Easter Ross, Scotland. He has undertaken archaeological research in England, Scotland, France, Italy and Algeria.