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Days Out: Getting Anglo-Saxon at Sutton Hoo

22/11/2025 donbrown 0

To Suffolk! the county about 80 miles NE of the metropolis, birthplace of John Constable, Benjamin Britten and George Orwell. Full of flat lands, fat […]

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The Sutton Hoo treasure

01/02/2022 donbrown 0

In 1938 a Suffolk woman called Edith Pretty asked a local archaeologist Basil Brown (no relation unfortunately) to excavate a series of mounds that were […]

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