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Sutton Hoo

Near Woodbridge, Suffolk

A buried ship packed with royal treasure, found on the eve of war.

In 1939 Basil Brown, a local excavator hired by landowner Edith Pretty, uncovered the ghost of a 27-metre ship inside a burial mound. The wood had rotted, but its rivets still stood in rows.

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When
Dug 1939
Where
52.0893, 1.3383
Group
Lost treasure

Visiting

National Trust, with a viewing tower over the burial mounds.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations

Not every mystery needs a lost continent. This book investigates fifty-nine real and often overlooked puzzles from the ancient and modern world: a temple older than farming itself, astonishing structures, out-of-place artifacts, and technologies lost to time. Each case is weighed honestly, with a clear ledger of the case for and against, so you can make up your own mind. Some cases collapse under scrutiny. Others remain genuinely unexplained. All of them are stranger than Atlantis.

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