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Appeal for British oak to recreate Sutton Hoo ship
Charity makes appeal after struggling to source wood in UK and says it may be forced to look abroad
The aim is ambitious: to complete a functioning reconstruction of the extraordinary Sutton Hoo burial ship by 2026 and test it on the river and sea, hopefully providing fresh insight into what life was like in Anglo-Saxon times. It aims to generate new knowledge about Anglo-Saxon times, its craftspeople, warriors, leaders, and seafarers and has brought together historians, archeologists, ship builders and project managers to lend a hand. The burial showed that early Anglo-Saxon England was a place of wonderful craftsmanship and international connections, spanning Europe and beyond and the imagery of cavernous timber halls, sparkling treasures and powerful kings in the Old English poem Beowulf were not fantasy.
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