If you only have a day, make a beeline for the Egyptian treasures, the Parthenon Marbles and quirky British antiquities such as the
Sutton Hoo helmet (one of the most important Anglo Saxon finds of all time) and the Lewis chessmen (six are also on display in Stornoway).
The National Trust has transformed
Sutton Hoo so visitors get a "real sense" of the importance of the royal burial mounds when they stand in front of them.
The
Sutton Hoo helmet from the British Museum But more than markets, London is mecca for museum rats, which Beng and I also are, and while we've been there before and seen literally the same old things, we took in and reveled at the
Sutton Hoo masks and the Egyptian mummies at the British Museum all over again, before hopping over to the Tate Modern at the South Bank for a mind-blowing exhibition of paintings from the Weimar Republic and highly inventive political art from the present.
The treasures found at
Sutton Hoo for example show exquisite craftsmanship.
It contains pieces from the Staffordshire Hoard (discovered in 2009), accompanied by sword fittings and the dazzling belt-buckle excavated 70 years earlier from the
Sutton Hoo ship burial (Fig.
Here you can explore the heritage and history of this market town and the Anglo-Saxon treasures of the
Sutton Hoo burial site, which reopens at Easter after a [euro]4million - including [euro]2million from the National Lottery - makeover.
Inspired by one of the greatest British archaeological discoveries of the 20th century, the
Sutton Hoo ship burial discovered on the eve of the Second World War, Ally Sherrick has written a clever, thrilling historical adventure.
They include Anglo-Saxon treasures in a boat burial at
Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, designer William Morris' Cotswold retreat and source of inspiration, Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire, and the magnificent Chatsworth House in Derbyshire.
North, Tate Modern and
Sutton Hoo, the site of strange grassy mounds
The full list is: Angel of the North, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, West Yorkshire; Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Park, St Ives, Cornwall; St Paul's Cathedral, London; Kelmscott Manor, Kelmscott, Oxfordshire; Chatsworth House, Bakewell, Derbyshire; Tate Modern, London;
Sutton Hoo, Suffolk; Coventry Cathedral, West Midlands; and, The Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Penzance, Cornwall.
From York to Whitby, from London to
Sutton Hoo, from Edinburgh to Anglesey, and from Hadrian's Wall to Loch Tay, each of his ten walking narratives form free-standing chapters as well as parts of a wider portrait of a Britain of fort and fyrd, crypt and crannog, church and causeway, holy well and memorial stone.