Sutton Hoo

A trip out with 'Birthday-Girl' to a National Trust site (HER CHOICE!) 
Sutton Hoo stands on the River Deben directly opposite Woodbridge and is the site of a discovery in the 1930's of an Anglo Saxon burial ground of huge value.

The monumental barrow contained a ship and articles of such beauty that it must have been in remembrance of a great King of the Angles. His body, mysteriously was not found and may be buried elsewhere? Several other barrows were discovered with treasure around them in the valley of the kings and it's all remembered in a splendid exhibition hall on site. Obviously the luscious gold and garnet trinkets of the king have been kept by the British Museum, but lovingly crafted replicas of the artefacts are on display and a lot of the less valuable stuff from the other graves.

It paints a picture of a world, over 1300 years ago when treasures fro all over the globe were amassed by a great king in Anglia, trading with the wider world.

Worth a trip if you are passing.