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Famous Sutton Hoo helmet may be clue that early Anglo-Saxons fought as mercenaries for Byzantine Empire, study suggests
The famous helmet from the ship ... interred in the ship burial at Sutton Hoo — possibly the early Anglo-Saxon king Raedwald — had brought back Byzantine armor after fighting in what was ...
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Famous Sutton Hoo helmet may be clue that early Anglo-Saxons fought as mercenaries for Byzantine Empire, study suggests
The famous helmet ... Byzantine armor, study author Helen Gittos, a medieval historian at the University of Oxford, told Live Science. Gittos said the chain mail coat from Sutton Hoo is now ...