Warriors from Britain joined far-flung Byzantine military campaigns in sixth century, grave goods suggest
Exotic items found at sites such as Sutton Hoo may have been brought to England by returning warriors, rather than via trade.Exotic items found at sites such as Sutton Hoo may have been brought to England by returning warriors, rather than via trade.Sixth-century Anglo-Saxon people may have travelled from Britain to the eastern Mediterranean and northern Syria to fight in wars, researchers have suggested, casting fresh light on their princely burials.
Armour and riding apparel buried with those individuals include designs of Eurasian origin and one that was widely worn in the Byzantine east and across the Sasanian empire. Simpson, the British Museum’s curator for ancient Iran and Arabia, is an archaeologist whose specialisms include the archaeology of the Sasanian empire.
At Taplow, in Buckinghamshire, the remains of a man wearing a Eurasian-style riding jacket was among discoveries. At Prittlewell, in Essex, a burial chamber was found with a copper flagon that depicts St Sergius in a Sasanian-style roundel, among other artefacts. Discussing bitumen lumps found at Sutton Hoo, which some had assumed were connected with the ship’s caulking, he noted that the Sasanians used bitumen in the lining of pottery and that major sources came from the Middle East, while the first-century Greek physician Dioscurides wrote of its extensive medical uses, for everything from asthma to hip pain.
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