Selwyn Online webinar - (Re)discovering the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial with Sue Brunning, Curator of the Sutton Hoo Collection at the British Museum

Fri 21 May 2021

online

In Summer 1939, Charles W. Phillips, Fellow of Selwyn College, supervised the team responsible for excavating Britain’s greatest ever archaeological discovery – the Sutton Hoo ship burial. This spectacular grave, perhaps of a seventh-century king, dispelled the myth of the ‘Dark Ages’ and revealed a world of artistic brilliance, complex beliefs and far-flung international connections.

In this lecture, curator Sue Brunning presents the burial from Sutton Hoo through the diary and photographs of Charles W. Phillips. His first-hand testimony provide a thrilling glimpse of what it was like to make the find of a lifetime, recovering material culture of a nature and quality never seen before – and all as the world hurtled towards the Second World War.

Cost: Free