The Sutton Hoo is one of the most important archeological findings in English history. It is an ancient ship burial that was discovered in 1939. The ship was discovered on a high bluff on the eastern side of the Deben River‚ which is about seven miles from the sea. Most of the archeological findings were in 1938 when the landowner‚ Edith May Pretty‚ helped unearth some of the mounds on the burial site. When they did this‚ they found out that the burial site was Anglo-Saxon‚ and that grave robbers
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Sutton Hoo Webquest What is Sutton Hoo? Sutton Hoo is the site of two 6th- and early 7th-century cemeteries. One contained an undisturbed ship burial including a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artifacts of outstanding art-historical and archaeological significance‚ now held in the British Museum in London. Sutton Hoo is of a primary importance to early medieval historians because it sheds light on a period of English history that is on the margin between myth‚ legend and historical documentation. You
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The Excavation of Sutton Hoo Sutton Hoo is an entire group of 17 mounds uncovered first in 1939 by Basil Brown that have been confirmed to be medieval burial mounds. Brown uncovered “the remains of a ninety-foot long‚ clinker-built wooden ship of the 7th century” which was outlined by iron rivets. (Archaeology‚ 1) Within these 17 mounds they uncovered ships‚ bodies‚ urns‚ and other objects. In mound 1 they uncovered a very rich burial which is believed to be the burial of the leader of the Wuffing
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1. When was the discovery at Sutton hoo made? How did international events complicate the first excavation? What were some later findings? Studies show that the discovery at sutton hoo made in 1939. It contained lots of wealth and artifacts. International events complicate the first excavation because the original excavation of the mounds was destroyed in World War 2. The only evidence was the picture of the reverts in the sand. Included in the treasure are some of the finest pieces of barbarian
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clearly be seen in a comparison between Poussin’s Burial of Phocion and Turner’s The Slave Ship. Despite both having the same subject of death and injustice‚ differences in formal qualities reveal a shift from thinking man dominates nature to nature dominates man‚ which makes sense given the contexts surrounding each work. Practically the only commonality between these two works (besides simply saying both are historical
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Boo hoo – Learning from the largest European dot-com failure Context “Unless we raise $20 million by midnight‚ boo.com is dead”. So said boo.com CEO Ernst Malmsten‚ on May 18th 2000. Half the investment was raised‚ but this was too little‚ too late‚ and at midnight‚ less than a year after its launch‚ Boo.com closed. The headlines in the Financial Times‚ the next day read: “Boo.com collapses as Investors refuse funds. Online Sports retailer becomes Europe’s first big Internet casualty”. The boo
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Decapitation in Anglo-Saxon Burials Table of Contents Introduction 1 Execution Burial Tendencies 2 Physical Struggle 2 Location of Skull 4 Location of Burial……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………5 Non Execution Decapitation……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….………………6 Loveden Hill……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….6 Great Addington………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………7 Chadlington……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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ITTC – Recommended Procedures and Guidelines Testing and Extrapolation Methods Propulsion‚ Performance Propulsion Test 7.5-02 -03-01.1 Page 1 of 14 Effective Date 2002 Revision 01 Table of Contents 1 2 3.3.2.1 Propeller Thrust .............................7 3.3.2.2 Propeller Torque ............................7 3.3.3 External Tow Force.......................7 3.3.4 Rate of revolution..........................8 3.3.5 Sinkage and trim ...........................8 3.3.6 Speed
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Kenneth Slessor was an Australian poet and war correspondent who wrote Beach Burial‚ Slessor sailed for Britain in May. This influenced him to write poems about the horrific war stories that he had seen while being in many countries overseas. Beach Burial is a 5 stanza poem the goes in depth of the Burial in North Africa. Beach burial by Kenneth Slessor Beach Burial is able to be a lament poem with the use of the ‘convoy of dead sailors’ and the focus on an individual ‘unknown seaman’‚ this gives
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