Charles William Phillips was a British archaeologist best known for leading the 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo burial ship, an intact collection of Anglo-Saxon grave-goods. In 1946, he replaced O.
The 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo burial ship
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Basil John Wait Brown was an English archaeologist and astronomer. Self-taught, he discovered and excavated a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in 1939, which has come to be called "on
Charles Phillips (archaeologist)
…Anglo-Saxon king Rædwald of East Anglia, from 10 July to 25 August 1939. Excavation of a large burial mound had begun in early May under the leadership of Basil Brown, who the previous year had opened several smaller mounds nearby. On 11 May, the remainder of an iron ship rivet was found, and seven days later Guy…
Brown, c. 1939
The Sutton Hoo helmet discovered by Brown's excavations