From Sutton Hoo to Byzantium: Did Anglo-Saxons fight for the Empire?

Season 1Episode 1139 minJan 21, 2025
From Sutton Hoo to Byzantium: Did Anglo-Saxons fight for the Empire?

Archaeologist Dr Helen Geake and co-host Martyn Williams take you to Sutton Hoo, where Time Team will be returning later this year.

Find out more about a new theory - put forward by Dr Helen Gittos from the University of Oxford - which casts doubt on the current understanding of how opulent Byzantine treasures, found in some of the burial mounds, came to be there. Could it be that Anglo-Saxons were fighting in the Byzantine army?

You'll also hear from the volunteers who are attempting to recreate the 27 metre-long longship which has made Sutton Hoo famous. How close are they to completing the project?

Plus, you'll meet the Patreon volunteer who's excited to return to the Sutton Hoo site and Time Team's Derek Pitman returns with news of a brand new offering over on YouTube.

From Sutton Hoo to Byzantium: Did Anglo-Saxons fight for the Empire? has aired on Jan 21, 2025
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