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Sutton Hoo

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

Not a hoard but a king’s ship-grave, and one of the greatest archaeological finds in Europe. In 1939, on the eve of war, a landowner asked an excavator to dig the largest of the mounds on her Suffolk estate, and under it lay the ghost of an 88-foot ship and the burial of an Anglo-Saxon king, his iron helmet, gold shoulder-clasps and a purse of coins intact, from around AD 625. The acid soil had eaten the body and the timber but left their shapes in the sand. It gave a face to the “Dark Ages.” PUBLIC (National Trust), Suffolk.

The ground it haunts

Sutton Hoo, near Woodbridge (Suffolk, England). Source: The great Anglo-Saxon royal ship-burial, excavated 1939. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

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