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'It epitomises the strangeness of Sutton Hoo': 6th-century bucket found at Anglo-Saxon ship burial holds human cremation

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Copper-alloy Bromeswell Bucket was found in 1986 at the Anglo -Saxon ship burial site of Sutton Hoo .

It predates the ship by at least a century and was likely imported from Turkey .

A new micro-excavation of the sixth-century container reveals it held the cremated remains of an elite individual.