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Rendlesham

King Aethelwold, the Venerable Bede and the new excavations at Rendlesham….

Sep 2, 2023

archaeology, buildings, genealogy, sources

Aethelwold, conversion, King of East Anglia, pagans, Raedwald, Rendlesham, Suffolk, Sutton Hoo, Swithelm, UFOs, Venerable Bede, Wuffings

Nowadays Rendlesham (the Forest) is often regarded as the site of Britain’s Roswell, but that’s a very recent development because it’s also where “Archaeologists have uncovered a 1,400-year-old royal Hall of the first Kings of East Anglia in Suffolk, England.” The site was apparently first spotted from the air in 2015….but was first mentioned…
Another Anglo-Saxon find?

Dec 5, 2016

archaeology

Anglo-Saxons, burials, Christianity, Raedwald, Rendlesham, Sutton Hoo, Venerable Bede, Wuffings

This Cambridge article reveals a little about the possible early Christian burial site near Sutton Hoo, first discovered nearly eighty years ago and which probably contains Richard’s collateral ancestor Raedwald.