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IoA/BM Seminar: Gittos 25 April 2023

25 April 2023, 6:15 pm–7:30 pm

Dr Helen Gittos (University of Oxford): Sutton Hoo & Syria: The Anglo-Saxons who served in the Byzantine Army?

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Iain MacDonald

Location

612
UCL Institute of Archaeology
31-34 Gordon Square
London
WC1H 0PY

The Sutton Hoo ship burial is the most famous example of what we now call princely burials. The recent publication of the example from Prittlewell (Essex) has brought our knowledge of them into sharper focus but some questions remain. Here I want to focus on one of them: why were these men buried with so many objects from the East Mediterranean? The conventional view is that they probably acquired them as gifts or through trade. But I want to argue for another explanation which opens up a new view on this period of early Anglo-Saxon history.

About the Speaker

Helen Gittos

at University of Oxford