The Sutton Hoo Ship-burial. Volume I
Subtitle: Excavations, Background, The Ship, Dating And Inventory
Publisher: British Museum
Published: 1975
Language: eng
Number of pages: 925
Subjects: World
Description: Folio, original blue cloth, gilt. xl, 792 pages; 440 text figures; 37 tables; 16 fold-out plates; 12 color plates; 44 coin enlargements; 12 plans and views housed in a loose map pocket at the end. Near fine. A remarkable work, meticulously documenting the most important archeological find ever made in the British Isles. This first volume is of considerable numismatic importance. "Thirty-seven Merovingian gold coins found in the purse in the burial-deposit have, on the basis of new and fundamental numismatic studies published here, now been established as having come together between approximately A.D. 620 and A.D. 630."