Snape boat grave
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The Snape boat grave is a 5th-6th century boat grave found at Snape Common, near Aldeburgh in East Anglia. A group of barrows was excavated here in 1862, and the remains of a clinker-built boat about 15m long was found in the undisturbed soil under the largest of the barrows. The grave goods included fragments of a green glass chalice of early Anglo-Saxon style and a gold ring of the late Roman period. Based on the finds, the burial is thought to be of 5th or 6th century date. Two masses of what was thought to be human hair were also found.
The knowledge of this grave assisted archaeologist Basil Brown to understand the nature of the nearby Sutton Hoo burials as soon as he realised he was dealing with a boat-like structure.
The finds and records from the excavation are held in the Aldeburgh Moot Hall Museum
See also
References
- Bruce-Mitford, R. 'The Snape Boat-Grave' in Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology - Sutton Hoo and other Discoveries (1974)
- Filmer-Sankey, W. 'Snape Anglo-Saxon cemetery - the current state of knowledge'in M.Carver, The Age of Sutton Hoo (1992), 39-51
- Filmer-Sankey, W. 'Snape' in Current Archaeology 118 (1990)
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