Sutton Hoo

Sutton Hoo
/hooh/
an archaeological site in Suffolk, England: a rowing boat, 80 feet (24 m) long, discovered here and believed to have been buried A.D. c670 by Anglo-Saxons, possibly as a cenotaph in honor of a king.

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Sutton Hoo [Sutton Hoo]
an area of ↑Suffolk, England, where an ↑Anglo-Saxon ship was found buried in 1939. It was full of ↑treasure and many people think that a 7th–century king was buried in it. The ↑treasure is now in the ↑British Museum.

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