SUFFOLK, ENGLAND—Archaeologists have uncovered an Anglo-Saxon cemetery near the East England coast, about 15 miles from the famous Sutton Hoo ship burial site. The site, planned for a nuclear power plant, contains at least 11 burial mounds.
At the center of the cemetery, researchers found the poorly preserved remains of two people and a horse, buried with full tack. Artifacts recovered from the sixth- or seventh-century A.D. burial include weapons and items made of bronze, iron, copper, and amber.
Len Middleton of Oxford Cotswold Archaeology noted the similarities to Sutton Hoo: “We have two individuals here, whereas Sutton Hoo [mound 17] has just one, but the arrangement of grave goods and their placement in the mound suggest kinship groups. It’s almost as if those attending these burials might also have been present at the others. The layout is strikingly similar. Sutton Hoo is just a day’s ride by horse, and if important people were being buried, kinship groups would certainly visit each other during these ceremonies.”
