British Museum

I went to the British Museum to look at the artefacts from Ancient Rome:

Whilst there I also looked at the treasure from the Anglo Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo, which is very close to my home in Suffolk so I found it especially interesting.

Since its discovery in 1939, the Sutton Hoo burial site has been the most important physical link to the Anglo Saxon world. The site consists of 19 or 20 burial mounds that were most likely formed between 625 and 670 AD. When the site was fully excavated, the remains of a large boat were revealed. Along with the boat was a relatively large burial chamber containing various artefacts that give us important implications about the culture of this period. There were no human remains found in the chamber although chemical analysis showed that there could have been a corpse inside at one time.
Along with the ship-burial, many impressive artifacts were found within mound one: