What? Who? What is Sutton Hoo?
A grave site from southeastern England discovered in the twentieth century. It dates to the 600s or 700s and seems to have been the burial of an Ango-Saxon nobleman or knight, who was interred with a ship and various treasures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo
The actual helmet pieced together from fragments at the site, above.
Below, reconstructions of what the helmet originally looked like.
While these weapons below are from much earlier Bronze Age sites, the patterns persisted over centuries and millenia: "The many hoards of weapons found provide graphic evidence of the armed struggle for wealth, property and power. Some of these personal hoards of arms, possibly buried as offerings to the gods."
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