mediumaevum:On This Day (July 27th) - In 1939 Mrs Edith Pretty, a landowner at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk
mediumaevum:On This Day (July 27th) - In 1939 Mrs Edith Pretty, a landowner at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, asked archaeologist Basil Brown to investigate the largest of many Anglo-Saxon burial mounds on her property. Inside, he made one of the most spectacular archaeological discoveries of all time. -- source link
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