Looks like a dairy and maybe a restaurant attached to the dairy.
Just goes to show anybody can tag anything on Google Maps and call it what they want.
Posted on 07/12/2024 7:25:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
While working at the Anglo-Saxon site of Sutton Hoo in England, archaeologists found the missing pieces of a 1,500-year-old copper bucket imported from Turkey. The bucket, which is at least a century older than the famed ship burial, may provide a window into how people lived in early medieval times.
A team of archaeologists, conservators and volunteers from Time Team, the U.K.'s National Trust and FAS Heritage discovered the metal fragments in late June during excavation and metal-detecting work at Sutton Hoo.
Sutton Hoo is best known for its magnificent seventh-century ship burial, whose 1939 discovery was featured in the 2021 movie "The Dig." But the burial was just one part of a complex of 18 separate burial mounds found near Suffolk in southeastern England, many of which contained jewelry and coins. Evidence of imported goods — including an Egyptian bowl, Eastern Mediterranean silverware and a Middle Eastern petroleum product called bitumen — has also been discovered at Sutton Hoo.
But the copper-alloy bucket, known as the Bromeswell Bucket, predates the ship burial by at least a century. The fragmented bucket, which was found in 1986, depicts a North African hunting scene featuring lions and a dog. It was likely produced in the sixth century in Antioch, Turkey, which was then part of the Byzantine Empire. An inscription in Greek on the bucket reads, "Use this in good health, Master Count, for many happy years," suggesting that it may have been a diplomatic gift.
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Thanks. It’s interesting that its burial preceded that of the ship burial. That suggests to me that its last use was to hold the cremation of its owner.
How did its pieces get scattered?
Could have been shallow enough at some point to be hit by a plow a few times.
The original discoverer of the site was Willie Sutton Hoo, who, when asked why he’d thought to dig there, said, “that’s where the money is.”
BTW, I just visited again. ;^)
There’s a hole in the bucket....
When *you’re* 1500 years old, see how many holes *you’ve* got. ;^)
Looks like a dairy and maybe a restaurant attached to the dairy.
Just goes to show anybody can tag anything on Google Maps and call it what they want.
I love Time Team. I’ve seen a lot of those episodes, but not all yet.
Probably a what3words tag before they started scrubbing the words that “might” be offensive to the professionally offended.
“What three words tag” — that’s a new one for me. Some generator picks,out three random words?
Good way to make a pass phrase with a few number and punctuation substitutions.
Hoo’s on first.
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