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How useful is Sutton Hoo as a window into 7th century Anglo Saxon Society and Culture?
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How useful is Sutton Hoo as a window into 7th century Anglo Saxon Society and Culture? Sutton Hoo can be useful in a number of ways to help us learn about their society and culture. First of all, if you look at the burial site itself, it is very easy to say that it was a pagan burial and not Christian. We can tell this by the fact that Raedwald was buried with his ship, an assortment of weapons, decorative items such as shoulder clasps and a brooch, buckets for ale and a purse containing 40 gold coins, among other things. Raedwald was buried with his possessions, as it was thought that if you were buried with your possessions you would be able to use them in your next life. The purse containing 40 gold coins has been suggested that its use was to pay the forty oarsmen to row the...
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