By Calvin B. Kendall, Peter S. Wells
A set of 10 essays on `The legacy of Sutton Hoo' rising from a convention prepared by means of the collage of Minnesota in 1989. members comprise: Alan Stahl (the Sutton Hoo coin parcel) ; Edward Schoenfield and Jana Schulman (an monetary evaluation) ; Roberta Frank, Robert Creed (Beowulf and Sutton Hoo) ; Simon Keynes (Raedwald the Bretwalda) ; Wesley Stevens (sidereal time in Anglo-Saxon England) ; Else Roesdahl (princely burial in Scandinavia) ; Henrik Jansen (the archaeology of Danish advertisement centres) ; Martin Carver (the way forward for Sutton Hoo) .
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Overall, the piece demonstrates a high level of artistic ability and technical skill. 45 Furthermore, while the Ripuarian Laws do mention the value of a helmet as 6 solidi,46 the helmet found at Sutton Hoo displays features that set its value as far above that of an ordinary helmet as that of the Sutton Hoo sword is above ordinary swords. The last artifact that we have analyzed is the ship. Fortunately, even though no wood survived, the quite complete imprint left in the sand allowed archaeologists to ascertain the ship's length, the number of strakes, and the sizes and types of rivets.
Bruce-Mitford, Sutton Hoo 2:138-52. 46. Laws of the Salian and Ripuarian Franks, p. 186 (Lex Ribuaria, ch. 11). 47. Bruce-Mitford, Sutton Hoo 1:352. 48. Care Evans, in Bruce-Mitford, Sutton Hoo 1:354. 49. Gillmor, "Naval Logistics," p. 114. 50. Gillmor, "Naval Logistics," p. 117. On early medieval iron tools in general, see Renee Doehard, The Early Middle Ages in the West: Economy and Society, trans. W. G. Deakin (Amsterdam, 1978), p. 14; and Duby, Early Growth of the European Economy, pp. 15, 75, and 194-96.
27. , 2:xxv. 28. D. , Albertus-Universitat at Konigsberg, Prussia [now Kaliningrad, Russia], 1899), pp. 43-45. On the availability of iron in the Middle Ages, see Otto Johannsen, Geschichte des Eisens (Diisseldorf, 1953), pp. 98-109. Johannsen indicates that the earliest medieval iron-bearing sites to be exploited extensively were in Noricum (modem Austria) and date to the eighth century. 29. Bruce-Mitford, Sutton Hoo 2:264-65. 25 Edward Schoenfeld and Jana Schulman 30. , 2:21-36; John Hewitt, Ancient Armor and Weapons in Europe (I860; repr.
