Lowestoft harbour
8.45 Departure for the crew travelling home
10.00 Breakfast
11.00 Bus to Sutton Hoo, room for 53 people
We have been invited to the Sutton Hoo Museum, where we have a free guided tour.
Sutton Hoo is an Anglo-Saxon burial ground from the year 600, excavated in 1939. Amongst other things, a burial mound containing a 27-metre-long clinker-built ship was excavated here. All the wood had rotted away but the impression of the ship with all of its clinch pins in place was complete. The ship has impressions of oarlocks along the gunwale, but it is unknown whether the ship had carried sails.
A half size reconstruction of the ship has been built, partly to study whether it may have carried sails. The people who have sailed in it believe that it certainly may have.
18.00 Evening meal