Life and Death of a Kingdom: East Anglia 500 to 869 AD
Until November 2nd
Tranmer House, Sutton Hoo
Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DJ
Telephone: 01394 389700
The National Trust has joined forces with the British Museum and the Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery for this just-opened exhibition at the Sutton Hoo burial site, which explores the identity of East Anglia when it existed as a kingdom in its own right, and how this East Anglian identity has sustained itself as distinct in the years since. The British Museum are lending a pair of gold and garnet shoulder-clasps discovered at Sutton Hoo in 1939, and thought to be part of the regalia of King Raedwald ...