Hello everyone, I have a question about the burial ship found in Mound One at Sutton Hoo. You can probably tell I just watched The Dig lol. So my question is, what happened to the imprint the ship left behind? At the end of the movie it appeared like they were reburying it, is that what happened? I cannot find an answer to this at all anywhere, which makes me feel like it’s an obvious answer. Is it just a mound again? If the archaeologists did in fact rebury it after they found it, why did they do that? To protect it? Has it ever been excavated again? Thank you in advance for any answers!
I also wonder why they don’t excavate the other burial mounds at Sutton Hoo. The documentary I saw said it was due to the potential for substantial damage to the findings, but also explained that the soil in that area is especially damaging itself, so the longer the artefacts remains buried the more is lost.