Sutton Hoo

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Lyre previously found at Sutton Hoo has a cousin in Kazakhstan. More in the comment on our page. Anglo-Saxon burial mounds in Suffolk, one of which contained the famous ship burial of King Raedwald who died in 625 AD. Image Left: The best-preserved lyre from Dzhetyasar. Length = 0.655m. The soundboard has not survived. Right: A reconstruction of the Sutton Hoo lyre