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Known as the Bromeswell bucket, the artifact found at England’s Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon site probably held the cremated remains of an important person, archaeologists say.

Anglo-Saxons buried a mysterious vessel over a millennium ago. Archaeologists discovered its contents By CNN May 25, 2025 Courtesy: David Brunetti/National Trust Images via CNN Newsource ...

Archaeologists found missing pieces of a sixth century vessel from the famed Sutton Hoo site, as well as the cremated human remains and other objects it once held.

Archaeologists have uncovered a key component of a mysterious artifact at Sutton Hoo, a National Trust site in Suffolk, England, famous for the seventh century Anglo-Saxon “ghost ship” burial ...

Experts believe the bucket came from the Byzantine Empire and was crafted in Antioch, located in modern-day Turkey, before finding its way to the eastern coast of Britain a century later.

Excavations in 2012 contributed more pieces to the object, called the Bromeswell bucket. But the entire base of the vessel has proved as elusive as the reasons why it’s present at an Anglo-Saxon site.

Anglo-Saxons buried a mysterious vessel over a millennium ago. Archaeologists discovered its contents By Ashley Strickland, CNN May 24, 2025 Updated May 24, 2025 ...

What might have meant one thing to the Saxons in their Old English tongue may be rather different than our modern understanding. West Knighton is just such an example.

Unlike the Sutton Hoo graves, the Prittlewell grave had never been looted by grave robbers, and it was excavated with modern techniques, resulting in a precise date between 580 and 605.