Back When | History Podcast23 Heinä 2025

The Last Voyage | Sutton Hoo

Embark on the last voyage of an Anglo-Saxon burial ship and learn how its discovery changed our understanding of a civilisation. In 1939, archaeologists uncovered a “ghost ship” under the acidic sandy soil of Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk.

Now, presenter James Grasby reimagines the last journey of that vessel, and who was aboard, as it was hauled from the water and dragged to its final resting place some 1,400 years ago.

Listener note: a version of this episode first went out in 2023 on the National Trust Podcast.

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Production
Host: James Grasby
Producer: Pippa Tilbury-Harris
Sound editor: Jesus Gomez

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Free guided tours of the Royal Burial Ground are available daily from February to October. You can book onto a tour with the Visitor Welcome team when you arrive at Sutton Hoo.

The replica ship is being built by the Sutton Hoo Ship’s Company. To follow the progress of the project and how you can support it, please visit saxonship.org

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