The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial

Even in England’s renowned green and pleasant land, it doesn’t look like much: a cluster of grassy mounds on a spur of land (the hoo) high above the River Deben in the county of Suffolk. But were the softly rising mounds in pasture land 95 miles north-east of London the deciding factor in the purchase of the Sutton Hoo estate by newly-wed Frank and Edith Pretty? Edith Pretty had been born into a wealthy Yorkshire industrialist family, the Dempsters. She had been educated at Roedean and in Paris, and in her youth travelled extensively with her family, taking a keen interest in the archaeological sites of Italy, Egypt, and Greece. She’d known her husband-to-be Frank since they’d met in 1901. The pair had kept in touch throughout World War 1, but hadn’t married until 1926, a year after the death of her father. She was then 43 years old. <a href="https://medium.com/escape-into-history/the-sutton-hoo-ship-burial-ac4e32b2f73b">Learn More</a>