Sutton Hoo is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. In 1939 it was the scene of the discovery of a fabulous treasure buried in a ship 30 metres long. In 1983 a new project began with the aim of discovering the context of the great Sutton Hoo burial ship. Using revolutionary fieldwork procedures, this new campaign uncovered a hectare of the cemetery, surveyed the surrounding region and made direct comparisons with monumental practices in neighbouring kingdoms across the North Sea. In the author's interpretation, the eleven mounds now excavated may well include the burials of those cited as 'kings' by Bede in his "History of the English Church and People. Sutton Hoo: A Seventh-Century Princely Burial Ground and its Context offers a description of all the investigations undertaken since 1983, and an account of what has been found in each mound. It includes a revisit to Mound 1, which contained the first ship-burial, and a revised interpretation. The early medieval artefacts, the early medieval landscape and the environmental and prehistoric sequences are studied by contributing experts. The book provides a complete scholarly companion to the archaeological research and interpretation of Sutton Hoo.