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Sutton Hoo

Archaeological site in Suffolk, England, where in 1939 a Saxon ship burial was excavated. It may be the funeral monument of Raedwald, King of the East Angles, who died about 624 or 625. The jewellery, armour, and weapons discovered were placed in the British Museum, London.



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Together with the Sutton Hoo Helmet, which dates from Anglo Saxon times.
Alexander the Great appears on the First Class stamp, UK's own Sutton Hoo Helmet on the 38p version, while Hoa Hakananai'a, the Easter Island figure, from AD 1000, is on the 68p release.
The other icons put on the list were Hadrian's Wall, the Notting Hill Carnival, Brick Lane, the Lindisfarne Gospels, The Origin of Species, morris dancing, the Domesday Book, the HMS Victory, the Hay Wain painting by Constable, Pride And Prejudice, the Eden Project, Blackpool Tower, the Globe theatre, the sixth century Sutton Hoo helmet, York Minster, Big Ben and the Queen's head stamp - known as the Machin.
 
 
 
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