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SUTTON HOO - My Buried History

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« on: January 13, 2008, 08:05:21 am »



BASIL BROWN










At Sutton Hoo, across the river from Woodbridge, Mrs. Pretty decided that the mounds on her property should now be excavated, and asked Guy Maynard at Ipswich Museum to make arrangements. Maynard decided to supervise the work himself, and to transfer Basil Brown from the Roman Villa at Stanton Chair to Sutton Hoo.

Mrs Pretty would supply labourers, and would herself employ Basil Brown at his usual rate at the time of £1 12s 6d a week.

So, Basil Brown was employed for the dig and arrived on June 20th at Sutton Hoo.

Basil suggested to Mrs Pretty that it would be better to start with a smaller mound in order to get experience of the conditions, and the best way to proceed. In August, work had to cease as Mrs Pretty was going away.

In 1938, three mounds were excavated, enough to prove that this was a high status burial ground of the 7th century. He found evidence of a boat burial, but the graves had been ransacked in the long distant past. Further work was planned for the following year, and Basil returned to the Stanton Chair Roman Villa on August 10th. 



1939

In February, there was widespread floods in Bury. The markets were also reorganised in the same month within the town.

A large and attractive drinking fountain set outside the Nutshell in the Traverse was judged to impede the traffic and so was removed. It now stands in the Abbey Gardens, used as a planter next to the Bowling Green.

The Plymouth Brethren moved out of town to a new chapel in West Road, Bury.

In March, Germany ignored the terms of the Munich Agreement and occupied the whole of Czechoslovakia.

The site that we now know as Blenheim Camp was built early in 1939 in Out Risbygate, Bury St Edmunds, and was originally known as West Lines. It was built for training the Militia who were called up for a six month spell, but war broke out before the six months were up. West Lines was expanded to give basic training to new recruits throughout the war.
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