This is Cambridge University paleontologist – and star Blue Badge guide – Aaron guiding in the British Museum. In this instance, the Sutton Hoo treasure – one of the five “must-sees” in the British Museum. The Sutton Hoo treasure – and especially its star attraction, the helmet – has of course caught the public imagination of late because of the just-released Netflix film, The Dig.
“he found an entire burial that was in the shape of a boat”
“he found a burial chamber”
“the skeleton had been destroyed”
“the metal around this burial had survived”
“shoulder clasps and even the top lid of a purse”
“realised it wasn’t Viking, it certainly wasn’t Roman, it was Anglo-Saxon”
“dated from the 7th century”
“realised they had to be trading with the rest of the world”
“the helmet looks like something out of the literature of the Anglo-Saxon period”
“it’s a really menacing looking helmet that you see in front of you”
“the clue of who he is comes from a series of coins…that tell us this was the 6th century”
“we are staring at the face of a 6th-century king”
“the new Netflix film”