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Create your own video on http://studio.stupeflix.com/?w=1 ! Sutton Hoo parade helmet (British Museum, restored). Although based on late Roman helmets of spangenhelm type, the immediate comparisons are with contemporary Vendel Age helmets from eastern Sweden. Sutton Hoo from the Deben tideway (Mound 2 visible on the horizon above the farm). Mound 11 (front left), Mound 10 (foreground, masking Mound 1), Mound 2 (middle distance) and Sutton Hoo House, coachhouse and stables: looking north. Sutton Hoo in relation to Gipeswic (Ipswich) and the Wicklaw. Model of the 1939 find (chamber area outlined). One of the Sutton Hoo burial mounds. This picture, taken during the Summer Solstice sunset on 21 June 2006, shows Mound 2 which is the only one of the Sutton Hoo mounds to have been reconstructed to its supposed original height. Alternate view. Reconstructed model of the burial-chamber. Alternate view. The shield-fittings reassembled. Reproduction of the lyre by Messrs Dolmetsch. Shoulder-clasps. Alternate view. British Museum. Great Buckle. Purse lid. British Museum. Vendel era helmet, at the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities. A Swedish shield from Vendel, directly comparable to the Sutton Hoo shield. Vendel era helmet, at the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities.