{"product_id":"sutton-hoo-and-its-landscape-book-tom-williamson-9781905119257","title":"Sutton Hoo and its Landscape","description":"The location of the Anglo-Saxon burial ground at Sutton Hoo, on  a ridge overlooking the estuary of the river Deben, has always  appeared strange and challenging. This is not so much because the  site is today an isolated and lonely one, but rather because it  lies on the very periphery of the early medieval kingdom of East  Anglia, whose rulers - the Wuffingas  - were buried there. In this extended meditation on the geography of a very special and  evocative place, Tom Williamson explores the meaning of the  cemetery's location. To understand the location of ancient  monuments we need to examine not only the character of past landscapes, but also the ways that contemporaries may have  experienced and felt about them: we need to reconstruct aspects  of their mental world. Williamson argues that the cemetery was  placed where it was not in order to display power and dominance  over territory, but because the river, and its brooding estuary,  had long held a special and central place in the lives and  perceptions of a local society. As King Raedwald and his family  rose to dominance over this river-people, they chose to be buried  at the heart of their territory. Such approaches may help us to understand why the cemetery was established where it was within  the territory of the  Wuffingas : but they cannot explain why that group came to dominate the whole of East Anglia. For this,  Williamson argues, we need to examine wider geographical contexts  - patterns of movement, contact, and social allegiance which were  engendered and shaped by landforms and topography at a regional  and national level. It is only by joining aspects of the new  'phenomenological' approaches to the archaeology of landscape, to  more traditional geographical interpretations, that we can  appreciate the full significance of this important site.  Combining a keen understanding of local and regional geography,  Anglo-Saxon history, and current debates about approaches to past  landscapes, this book is a masterly exploration of the context  and meaning of an iconic set of monuments.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49515455807761,"sku":"GOR005297207","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50483736903953,"sku":"NGR9781905119257","price":42.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51681587626257,"sku":"GOR014355365","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1905119259.jpg?v=1751427582","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/sutton-hoo-and-its-landscape-book-tom-williamson-9781905119257","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}