The Age of Sutton Hoo

Comprehensive and lavish… [the] volume’s twenty-four papers provide not only an unrivalled and tantalizing preview of the most recent finds at Sutton Hoo, but also a survey of the whole context of the burial, local, national and international. – J R Maddicott * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *The Sutton Hoo `princely’ burials play a pivotal role in any modern discussion of Germanic kingship. * EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE *A valuable interim report on the 1983-92 excavation… most exciting may be the parallels suggesed from Merovingian and Scandinavian Europe. A major contribution to the Sutton Hoo literature. * CHOICE *A major reassessment of the political and economic context of this burial ground-a very important book. * MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY *A book clearly aimed at academics and university students, [but] of value to anyone seriously interested in early Anglo-Saxon England.. Martin Carver’s succinct account of Sutton Hoo…explain[s] the burials in ways which go beyond traditional historical archaeological interpretation. * HISTORY TODAY *

MARTIN CARVER has been publishing with Boydell since 1993, and is one of the leading archaeologists in Britain, and indeed Europe. He was professor at York from 1986 to 2008. He has been responsible for most of the excavations at Sutton Hoo since the 1970s.