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Angela Care Evans.
The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial.

Published London: British Museum Publications, 1986.
ISBN 0714105449;
ISBN-13: 9780714105444.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Bath Press, Avon.
Size: 187x244x11mm.
Page count: text 127pp; plates 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some creasing on its covers and spine, a bit of wear on the edges and corners; text pages a bit yellowed with age, otherwise looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.


This item £5.00
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[Publisher’s price for 3rd edn. £9.99]
Weight without packaging: 398g.

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Contents: The Sutton Hoo gravefield; First 3 burial mounds, 1938; Great discovery, 1939; The ship; Burial chamber; Warrior king; Mediterranean silver; Feasting in the great hall; Symbols of power; Treasure trove?; restoration work; Excavations 1965-70; Kingdom of East Anglia; Dating the ship burial; Poetry & style; Sutton Hoo today.
Appendix: East Anglian kings.

Illustrations: 95 monochrome text illustrations, plus 8 pages of colour plates
Maps & plans: 5

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: half-page
Index: yes

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