IDNO

LS.20550.CWP

Description

From P. Ashbee’s catalogue: "Gunwale strake and thole (Ant J. XX (1940), Pl.XXXVa). M.K.L.ack No.75"

View of excavation site.

A close up view of the features called the gunwale strake and the thole, on the side of the Sutton Hoo ship. [L. Mutter]

Place

Europe British Isles; United Kingdom; England; Suffolk; Woodbridge; Sutton Hoo

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Lack, Mercie Keer (Miss)

Collector / Expedition

Phillips, Charles W.

Date

9 - 24 August 1939

Collection Name

Phillips Collection

Source

Phillips, Charles W.

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Period: Anglo-Saxon - 6th and 7th centuries A.D.

Context: This lantern slide image is produced from a photograph taken during excavations of the Sutton Hoo ship burial site in 1939, directed by C.W. Phillips. The lantern slide may have been made at that time or at a later date.

Publication: This image was used as Plate XXXVa in Phillips 1940a, with the caption: "a. Thole". See Bibliography.

Paul Ashbee ordered and catalogued these lantern slides in 1998. This lantern slide was kept in container marked C35/ by the cataloguer. This container holds a series of images from Sutton Hoo. The numbering system referred to in the "Other no’s" field was given by Ashbee, and his description is transcribed in the "Description" field.