The ship that was buried in the seventh century at Sutton Hoo and excavated under Mound 1 in 1939, is now being reconstructed. This book, planned as the first of three, celebrates the artisans who built the original ship and the times they lived in, explores the crafts they practised and the boats they may have known. Then it runs forward from the seventh century to the present day, to explain how and why the ship came to be reconstructed. It introduces the Sutton Hoo Ship's Company and its volunteer crew who are rebuilding the ship, on strict archaeological principles, in the Longshed on the Woodbridge waterfront across the River Deben from the Sutton Hoo site.
The two books planned to follow this tell the stories of The BUILD and the TRIALS and what they have taught us about England in the seventh century, on land, river and sea.
The books are published by the Boydell Press, Woodbridge
Find the Ship's Company at: https://saxonship.org
