The last dig at the site was in 2000 when the visitor centre and car park was developed.
The first dig at Sutton Hoo in more than two decades is beginning on a section of the site away from the famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial that was discovered in 1939.
It is thought to have been the final resting place of King Raedwald, who ruled East Anglia in the seventh century. He said it follows ground-penetrating radar survey work which identified anomalies beneath the ground, which will be investigated during the dig. “Some things can be natural, just geology, you get things like tree pits where a tree’s been blown over,” said Mr Wainwright.“But there’s a possibility we might have Anglo-Saxon graves here as we’re on the edge of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery.“We’re also looking for the prehistoric and Roman periods, so what happened before the famous Sutton Hoo.
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