On display at the British Museum in London, the Sutton Hoo helmet is an iconic relic of early British history. Although rusted and fragmentary, the helmet reflects the power of its owner ...

Dr Helen Gittos, a historian at the University of Oxford, thinks the graves belonged to British men who fought ... a silver plate and the famous Sutton Hoo helmet. The man buried in a ship ...

However, a top Anglo-Saxon academic has now claimed that the site was actually for British soldiers fighting ... The items found at Sutton Hoo include a helmet depicting warriors on horseback ...

Among the most notable objects are silver spoons with Greek inscriptions, a Byzantine-era silver platter, and a helmet adorned with ... Silver vessels from Sutton Hoo, mentioned in the text, all in ...

Sue Brunning, curator of European Early Medieval and Sutton Hoo Collections at the British Museum, shared her thoughts on the research. "This research offers exciting new possibilities for ...

Archaeologists uncovered an Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo thought to be related to King Raedwald in 1939 [Trustees of the British Museum/PA] But Dr Gittos suggests Byzantine Army soldiers ...