Sutton Hoo derives its name from Old English. Sut combined with tun means the "southern farmstead" or "settlement" and hoh refers to a hill "shaped like a heel spur". The same ending survives in a few other placenames, notably

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Sutton Hoo, which lies along the banks of the tidal estuary of the River Deben, lends its name to the small Suffolk village of Suttonand

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Neolithic and Bronze Age
There is evidence that Sutton Hoo was occupied during the Neolithic period, c. 3000 BCE, when woodland in the area was cleared by agriculturalists. They dug small pits that contained flint-tempered earthenwarepots.

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David M. Wilsonhas remarked that the metal artworks found in the Sutton Hoo graves were "work of the highest quality, not only in English but in

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Similarities with Swedish burials
A series of excavations in 1881–83 by Hjalmar Stolperevealed 14 graves in the village of Vendel in eastern Sweden. Several of the burials were contained in boats up to 9 metres (30 ft) long and were furnished with swords,

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Prior to 1938
In medieval times the westerly end of the mound was dug away and a boundary ditch was laid out. Therefore, when looters dug into the apparent

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Background
Following the withdrawal of the Romans from southern Britain after 410, Germanic tribes such as the

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