Historia to Contact Visitor Reception Please Telephone 01394 389714

General Information

Tickets are £5 per person, per talk. Please speak to the Visitor Reception team to book. Historia To contact Visitor Reception please telephone 01394 389714. Our opening hours are 10:30am - 5:00pm. Sutton Hoo Festival of History Please be aware that due to a new till system we are no 4th September - 16th October longer able to take payment over the phone. We can reserve your tickets and take payment on the day. Talks Programme

If you are a National Trust member please remember to get your card scanned at Visitor Reception when you arrive for the talk. If you are not a member please be aware that normal site admission applies. Historia Talks Programme Sunday 2nd October Sunday 4th September 11:30am; Prof Leslie Webster (UCL, formerly British Museum) - Signals of Faith: Pagan or Christian in the 7th Century? 11:30am; Stephen Pollington (Independent Scholar) - Sutton

Hoo and its Relations with the Post-Roman world 2:30pm; Dr Helen Geake (Cambridge University, formerly Time Team) - Sutton Hoo and the Origins of the English 2:30pm; Lyn Blackmore (Museum of London) - The Prittlewell

Prince – an Essex chamber burial and its contents in the local, Sunday 9th October regional and wider context 11:30am; Dr Richard Hoggett(Archaeologist) - Changing

Sunday 11th September Beliefs: the Archaeology ofthe Christian Conversion

11:30am; Dr Angela Care Evans (formerly British Museum) - 2:30pm; Paul Mortimer (Independent Scholar and King Recollections of the 1965 excavations at Sutton Hoo Rædwald) - Dying to Look Good; the Importance of Dressing Well for Battle during the 6th and 7th Centuries 2:30pm; Dr Noël Adams (Furusiyya Art Foundation) - Of Men and Mushrooms: new research on garnet cloisonné at the Sunday 16th October turn of the 7th century

11:30am; Sue Brunning (British Museumv Curator, Sutton Hoo Sunday 18th September Collection) - Sutton Who? Archaeology and the Man in the Mound 11:30am; Chris Fern (Staffordshire Hoard Project) - Sutton Hoo and the Staffordshire Hoard 2:30pm; Prof Martin Carver (York University) - Sutton Hoo

and World History 2:30pm; Dr Sam Newton (Independent Scholar, formerly Time Team) - The Dream-ship of Sutton Hoo

Sunday 25th September 11:30am; Prof Andy Orchard (Oxford University) - Title TBC 2:30pm; Angus Wainwright (Regional Archaeologist NT) - The

Archaeology and Geology of the Sutton Hoo Landscape