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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…

"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…

"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,…

"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…

"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,…

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…

"The concordancing system described at this date was to be written in Fortran on a Univac 1108. The Univac 1108 computer was modular and extensible but could easily fill a room with its various components, including not only the processor (or…

"in 1980, the DOE published its Microfiche Concordance to Old English. ""METHODS OF RESEARCH and standards of proof in Old English scholarship have been permanently changed with the publication of this reference tool. Henceforth, if a historian…

"The earliest published plans for the Dictionary are the transcripts of a conference held in Toronto on 21-22 March 1969; these were published as Computers and Old English concordances, and while concordances were one of the two main topics of…