The Silver Spoons of Sutton Hoo

In August 1939 I drove from Cambridge with Hector and Nora Chadwick to see the Sutton Hoo dig. Phillips and Chadwick had never met and both were slightly apprehensive. The encounter turned out to be a great success. As we were leaving Chadwick said to Charles ‘It's the grave of King Rædwald you know. I've no doubt of that.’Glyn Daniel (address given at the funeral of Charles Phillips at Teddington on 2 October 1985)

Section: The Three Men and The Funeralmentioning

confidence: 99%

Three men and a boat: Sutton Hoo and the East Saxon kingdom

Pearson

Noort

Woolf

1993

“…They contain two separate but connected texts, the names saulos and paulos inscribed in Greek letters. 23…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

A pair of inscribed Anglo-Saxon hooked tags from the Rome (Forum) 1883 hoard

Graham‐Campbell

Okasha

Metcalf

1991

The importance of the hoard found in the excavations in the Forum at Rome in 1883, just outside the the House of the Vestal Virgins, has long been recognized by Anglo-Saxon numismatists, for it is the largest recorded source for the coinage of Æthelstan and Edmund. Archaeologists, art-historians and epigraphers have, however, failed to appreciate the significance for Anglo-Saxon studies of the pair of silver tags found with the coins (pl. VIII), bearing between them the name of Pope Marinus, despite their having been illustrated (in uncleaned condition) by Christopher Blunt in his 1974 account of the hoard. The tags themselves are described and discussed here by Dr James Graham-Campbell and their inscriptions by Dr Elisabeth Okasha, both working from photographs kindly made available to us by Dottoressa Silvana Balbi de Caro, of the Museo Nazionale in Rome, through the agency of Dr Michael Metcalf.

Sutton Hoo published: a review

Biddle

Binns

Cameron

et al. 1977

The discovery of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial in the summer of 1939 opened a window on the early Anglo-Saxon world through which we have all since been looking. But the view has inevitably been blurred until now, lacking the precise definition which only the publication of the definitive study could provide. The first of the four volumes of this most eagerly awaited and often anticipated account has now appeared: it is an offering worthy of its subject, comprehensive, generous in detail, splendidly produced.