Angela Evans is the ‘Grande Dame’ of research on the Sutton Hoo Ship, assembling the definitive report in 1975 (Chapter V in The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial). A member of the British Museum’s Sutton Hoo team, she took part in their excavations in 1965-1970 and in those of the Sutton Hoo Research Trust 1983-2005. She also assembled and edited the third volume of the British Museum’s report and published her own popular account (The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial, British Museum1986).

You will have an opportunity to hear Anglea speak in The Lonshed on Saturday 3 June

S6: ‘Sutton Hoo and the princely graves of early Anglo-Saxon England’ with Anglea Care Evans FSA, 5.30 – 6.30 pm in The Longshed – Book here