Ellie Ames 27 November 2023

Council digs up ‘remarkable’ evidence of pre-Christian royal practice

Council digs up ‘remarkable’ evidence of pre-Christian royal practice image
Image: suffolk.gov.uk

A local authority’s community archaeology project has found ‘rare and remarkable evidence’ of the practice of pre-Christian beliefs at a royal site.

Over the summer, Suffolk County Council's ‘Rendlesham Revealed’ project uncovered a suspected temple, or ‘cult house’, at the site of the royal settlement of the East Anglian Kings.

The site at Rendlesham, near Sutton Hoo, was a royal centre between the 6th and 8th centuries, according to historians.

Professor Christopher Scull, the project’s principal academic advisor, said: ‘The results of excavations at Rendlesham speak vividly of the power and wealth of the East Anglian kings, and the sophistication of the society they ruled.

‘The possible temple, or cult house, provides rare and remarkable evidence for the practice at a royal site of the pre-Christian beliefs that underpinned early English society.’

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