Book Club: The Experimental Sutton Hoo Ship - Martin Carver (Patreon)

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Join us for Book Club!

Director George Pagliero sits down with Professor Martin Carver to chat about his new book.

In this book – the first of three – Martin Carver pictures the people that created the ship in the seventh century, and explores their world of beliefs, burial, ornamental metalwork, clothes, and carpentry. The treasure found in the ship marks the high point of the kingdom of East Anglia, a realm linked with continental Europe, the Mediterranean and the Byzantine empire. This coincided with the creation of great timber halls and great clinker-built wooden ships. In order to see what influenced the design and construction of the Sutton Hoo ships, we have to look at the surviving evidence for seventh century boats from a wide variety of countries.

This roll-call of broadly contemporary boats is followed by a description of how our ship came to be reconstructed today, through the initiatives of Sutton Hoo’s researchers and custodians and the people of Woodbridge, how it was designed and made a reality, concluding with an overview of what we can learn from this kind of recreation of a major archaeological discovery.

Enjoy early access and order a copy in the Time Team shop ahead of its main release elsewhere, along with some of Martin’s other books featured in our Sutton Hoo collection, by clicking HERE.

Many thanks to Martin Carver and his publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd, and of course the Sutton Hoo Ships Company.

If you want to find out more about the reconstruction of the Sutton Hoo Ship click HERE to visit their website.

Plus, if you haven’t seen it already, we’d highly recommend watching the incredible Time Team Special that follows this story:

The Sutton Hoo Ship: Rebuilding a Legend (Part 1)