Nevertheless, a team of archaeologists and shipbuilders have succeeded in creating a three-dimensional digital mock-up of the vessel to allow it to be reconstructed. In the mound - thought the resting place of King Rædwald, pictured in this sketch - only the impression of the ship and its iron rivets remained, the timber having long rotted away Pictured, works begin to recreate the vessel The shipbuilders believe that the replica could be completed and ready to brave the seas as soon as 2022, with potential test sailings across the North Sea and beyond.ĭated back to the early 7th century, the 90 foot (27 metre) -long vessel is oft dubbed a ‘ghost ship’ thanks to its manner of preservation. It is expected that the complete build will cost around £1 million ($1.3 million). This will include the joining of oak planks in the overlapping - or ‘clinker’ - style. Historical experts are working to ensure that the craft is constructed using authentic Anglo-Saxon building techniques and appropriate building materials for the time. Work on the vessel will begin in earnest next month when volunteers will complete the frame onto which the ship’s keel will be constructed. ‘So our project will contribute to knowledge of our shores and seas and knowledge of the earliest English, their history, way of life, their poetry.’ ‘Our objectives are to learn how an early English ship was built, its performance in river, lake and sea, its handling of the wind and tides - and not only to learn what’s possible and record it, but to discover what it feels like.’ Some things can be learnt from a book or a test tube other things need learning by doing.’
‘We want to see what a ship and its crew could do. But we know little about it,’ Sutton Hoo Ship’s Company director Martin Carver told the Times. ‘We suspect that seafaring was rooted in the hearts of the Angles and Saxons that made England their home. The Sutton Hoo artefacts are now housed in the collections of the British Museum, London, while the mound site is in the care of the National Trust. Within the ship, however, archaeologists in 1939 found a ceremonial helmet, a shield, a sword, pieces of silver plate from the Byzantine Empire and metalwork fittings made of gold and gems. The vessel is oft dubbed a a ‘ghost ship’ thanks to how only its iron rivets and impressions of timber remained. The undisturbed burial site is believed to have been the resting place of King Rædwald of East Anglia. Located near Woodbridge, Suffolk, Sutton Hoo is home to two burial mounds from the 6th and 7th centuries - the latter a ship burial. The Anglo-Saxon vessel found in the Sutton Hoo burial mound in Suffolk 80 years ago will sail again as experts look to rebuild the ship from digital 3D models, as pictured WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT SUTTON HOO? The vessel is hoped to take its first voyage across the seas in 2022. Nevertheless, a team of archaeologists and shipbuilders have succeeded in creating a three-dimensional digital mock-up of the vessel to allow it to be reconstructed.Įxpert hope that recreating a full-size, fully-operational version of the ship will help shine light on how the Anglo-Saxons began England’s tradition of seafaring. In the mound - thought the resting place of King Rædwald - only the impression of the ship and its iron rivets remained, the timber having long rotted away. The Anglo-Saxon vessel found in the Sutton Hoo burial mound in Suffolk 80 years ago will sail again as experts look to rebuild the ship from digital 3D models.ĭated back to the early 7th century, the 90 foot (27 metre) -long vessel is oft dubbed a ‘ghost ship’ thanks to its manner of preservation. However experts have used these to model the craft and plan to rebuild it.Only iron rivets and impressions of the hull were preserved to the present day.
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