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Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Finds -- 1: The Sutton Hoo Treasure

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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Metal Detection - The Great Watershed of Dark Age Britain

The wider suttan hu excavations provide another confirmation of continuity and adaptation from the pagan era into the christian era. There is a remarkable degree of repetition and consistency of where and how people were buried, even as religious symbolism might have changed. And in that way, it serves as a precedent and a model for many more finds and excavations all around britain and all around europe. In recent decades, there has even been a sort of multiplication of new finds as metal detecting has been increasingly integrated into british archaeology.

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