105 – Sutton Hoo: Treasures of the Dead

It’s all too easy to look at a burial, even a magnificent burial, and see it in isolation.  This is a grave… and it a grave for this individual person… and that’s as far as we might look.  But really, there is a great deal more going on here.  The reality is that the dead don’t bury themselves.  So even on the surface level, when we look at a grave, we are seeing elements of how the individuals involved in the burial, often the deceased’s community, processed the experience of death.  But we are...