Sutton Hoo
Sutton Hoo is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th centuries near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. Archaeologists have been excavating the area since 1938, when an undisturbed ship burial containing a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artifacts was discovered.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, UK
- Also known as: “Prehistoric settlement and group of barrows (including site of ship burial) at Sutton Hoo”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tranmer House and Melton railway station.
Tranmer House
Building
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tranmer House is a country house in Sutton Hoo, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, dating from 1910. The house is located on the Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon burial site, and, in 1938, was the home of Edith Pretty. Tranmer House is situated 450 feet southwest of Sutton Hoo.
Melton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.
Melton railway station is on the East Suffolk Line in the east of England, serving the village of Melton, Suffolk. It is 11 miles 49 chains down the line from Ipswich and 80 miles 28 chains measured from London Liverpool Street; it is situated between Woodbridge and Wickham Market. Melton railway station is situated 3,700 feet north of Sutton Hoo.
Woodbridge Tide Mill
Museum
Photo: Circuitsight, Public domain.
Woodbridge Tide Mill in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England is a rare example of a tide mill whose water wheel still turns and is capable of grinding a wholemeal flour. Woodbridge Tide Mill is situated 1 mile west of Sutton Hoo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Melton and Woodbridge.
Melton
Village
Photo: Adrian Cable, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Melton is a village in Suffolk, England, located approximately one mile northeast of Woodbridge. The 2001 census recorded a population of 3,718, the population increasing to 3,741 at the 2011 Census.
Woodbridge
Town
Photo: jorviking, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Woodbridge is a town in Suffolk. It is about 8 miles from the coast, on the River Deben and is the location of medieval burial sites and ancient archaeological finds.
Sutton Hoo
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Sutton, Suffolk Coastal District, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Sutton Hoo” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sutton Hoo”
- Arabic: “ساتون هوو”
- Azerbaijani: “Satton-Hu”
- Basque: “Sutton Hoo”
- Belarusian: “Сатан Ху”
- Belarusian: “Сатан-Ху”
- Bulgarian: “Сътън Ху”
- Catalan: “Sutton Hoo”
- Catalan: “Sutton-Hoo”
- Chinese: “萨顿胡”
- Chinese: “薩頓胡”
- Czech: “Sutton Hoo”
- Danish: “Sutton Hoo”
- Dutch: “Sutton Hoo”
- Esperanto: “Sutton Hoo”
- Finnish: “Sutton Hoo”
- French: “Sutton Hoo”
- Galician: “Sutton Hoo”
- German: “Sutton Hoo”
- Greek: “Σάτον Χου”
- Hebrew: “סאטון הו”
- Hungarian: “Sutton Hoo”
- Indonesian: “Sutton Hoo”
- Irish: “Sutton Hoo”
- Italian: “Sutton Hoo”
- Japanese: “サットン・フー”
- Korean: “서튼후”
- Latin: “Sutton Hoo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sutton Hoo-skipet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sutton Hoo”
- Norwegian: “Sutton Hoo”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sutton Hoo”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sūþtūn Hōh”
- Persian: “ساتن هو”
- Polish: “Sutton Hoo”
- Portuguese: “Sutton Hoo”
- Russian: “Саттон-Ху”
- Slovenian: “Sutton Hoo”
- Spanish: “Sutton Hoo”
- Spanish: “Yelmo de Sutton Hoo”
- Swedish: “Sutton Hoo”
- Thai: “Sutton Hoo”
- Thai: “ซัตตันฮู”
- Ukrainian: “Саттон Гу”
- Ukrainian: “Саттон-Гу”
- Ukrainian: “Саттон-Ху”
- Western Frisian: “Sutton Hoo”
- “ma Satanu”
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