Burial in Anglo-Saxon England refers to the grave and burial customs followed by the Anglo-Saxons between the mid 5th and 11th centuries CE in Early Mediaeval England. The variation of the practice pe
Inhumation at Sutton Hoo under archaeological excavation
Anglo-Saxon cremation was open and public, like that in contemporary South Asia (pictured).
Funerary urn from the Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
Early cemeteries of possible Settler origin
Sutton Hoo
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Sutton Hoo is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th centuries near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. Archaeologists have excavated the site since the discovery of a previously
Burial in Anglo-Saxon England
…that have since been discovered and excavated include the early cemetery of Spong Hill in Norfolk and the great sixth-seventh century ship burial of Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. The early Anglo-Saxon period in England lasted from the fifth to the eighth centuries CE, during which time burial was the common custom…
The Sutton Hoo burial site
The Wicklaw region
Finds from Mound 17
Mound 2 is the only Sutton Hoo tumulus to have been reconstructed to its estimated original height