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Titel: The Sutton Hoo Helmet
Zustand: Neu
EAN: 9780714123257
ISBN: 9780714123257
Verlag: British Museum Press
Produktart: Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.02.2007
Höhe: 210mm
Länge: 147mm
Gewicht: 160g
Autor: Sonja Marzinzik
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellungsland und -region: GB
Buchreihe: Objects in Focus
Genre: History
Title Format: Taschenbuch
Description:
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A warrior’s face – the strong brows inlaid with red garnets, the nose and mouth gilded and its surface tinned a silvery colour – this is how the Sutton Hoo helmet once appeared to those who saw it. Beautifully crafted and visually stunning, it would have inspired awe. But it was also fully capable of protecting its wearer in battle. This book explains how it was discovered together with other priceless treasures including a ship in the great mound at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, by the archaeologist Basil Brown in the late 1930s. He was employed by the owner of the estate, Mrs Edith Pretty, who generously donated the whole find to the British Museum. After painstaking reconstruction, experts were able to compare this very rare helmet to the few others dating to the same period, and also to speculate for whom it might have been created. Today, some 1,400 years after it was buried, it is the centrepiece for the Sutton Hoo burial exhibit in the British Museum – a remarkable testament to Anglo- Saxon power and artistic skill.

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