Sutton Hoo helmet
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The Sutton Hoo helmet is a decorated Anglo-Saxon helmet found during a 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial. It was thought to be buried around the years c. 620–625 AD and is widely associate
The ship impression during the 1939 excavation; Basil Brown is in the foreground, and Lieutenant Commander John Kenneth Douglas Hutchison in the background.
A replica helmet showing designs 1, 2, 4 and 5, located (1) above the eyebrows and on the cheek guard, (2) on the skull cap, (4) on the cheek guard and skull cap, and (5) on the face mask
One of the four Torslunda plates (plate: 618349_HST), showing a horned figure similar to those in design 1. His missing right eye suggests that he is Odin.
The Pliezhausen bracteate shows a scene nearly identical to design 2.
Edith Pretty
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Edith May Pretty was an English landowner on whose land the Sutton Hoo ship burial was discovered after she hired Basil Brown, a local excavator and amateur archaeologist, to determine whether anythin
Sutton Hoo helmet
…took its present form after a second reconstruction in 1970–71. The helmet and the other artefacts from the site were determined to be the property of Edith Pretty, owner of the land on which they were found. She donated them to the British Museum, where the helmet is on permanent display in Room 41. The helmet…
Edith Pretty