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Sutton Hoo Ship Burial

Accession number: 
1972.0021

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Production Years: 
1972

Languages:

  • English
Film Properties: 
  • 16mm
  • Colour
  • Sound
Length (minutes): 
25

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University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario: 16mm (2 copies), VHS.
"Outlines the discovery in 1939 of a ship that was buried in the 6th century at the site of Sutton Hoo in Sussex as a memorial to a dead king. Diagrams illustrate the arrangement of objects, and photographs give some idea of what they looked like before they were removed from the earth."

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia: 16mm.
"A day-by-day account of the excavation of a 1300 year old ship buried at the site of Sutton Hoo in Sussex, England. Includes detailed examination of the treasures found in the collapsed burial chamber. Ends with a reading in Old English of the description of Scyld Scefing's funeral from Beowulf."