Bolintineanu - Sutton Hoo and Beowulf

Folio 129 verso of the Beowulf manuscript (London, British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius A XV), showing the text of the poem's lines 122-146. The writing is clear Insular minuscule, verses written continuously, without line breaks. The page is…

"Iron pattern-welded sword blade, heavily corroded. The blade is broad and tapers slightly towards the pointed tip. [...] The Sutton Hoo sword was not restored from fragments - it was lifted as a solid but rusted unit" (British Museum Catalogue,…

"Curved gold dummy buckle or clasp of elongated triangular form. The loop is decorated with cloisonné garnet work, comprising one band of a running step-pattern, and one of plain rectangular and keystone cells. The buckle has a cut-away dummy…

"The thirty-seven coins in the Sutton Hoo purse are all Frankish, and are the only large deposit of coins from the Anglo-Saxon period before the introduction of an English coinage." (British Library Catalogue,…

"Shallow silver bowl, not quite complete. Central inscribed roundel, in the centre of an equal-armed cross running from below rim. Arms of the cross decorated with chased star motif. Central roundel contains six pointed star, with eight-petalled…

View of the excavation of the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo. Black and white photograph centering the impression of the Sutton Hoo ship in the ground, with rivets and impressions of individual planks clearly visible, though the wood of the ship has…