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I'm Lucy Burns and today I'm taking you back through the BBC Archives to the summer of 1939

and one of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries in British history

when a huge horde of Anglo-Saxon gold was found at Sutton-Hoo in Suffolk. When we were naturally wildly excited. It looked so beautiful the garnets and the gold lying there in the sand with the black ribs of the boat behind.

This is Margaret Guido, one of the archaeologists working at Sutton-Hoo in 1939.

And we all crowded round and looked at it

and of course felt that we were in on a realm boy's adventure.

Sutton-Hoo house now known. of Rail Boys Adventure.

Sutton-Hoo House, now known as Trammer House, is an Edwardian country house not far from England's southeast coast in Suffolk

with an unusual view onto a series of mysterious mounds or barrows.

Our story starts in 1926 when the house was bought by Ayris Edith Priti who moved in with her husband Frank. Her niece Molly Bevan remembered her in a BBC

documentary in 2002. She became pregnant when she was 47. It was very difficult pregnant since she was quite idle, but anyway she produced her son.

They were very thrilled, but my uncle died quite soon after that and that was left her lonely.

And she turned rather to her spiritualist friends after that.

Spiritualism is the belief that it's possible to talk to the spirits of the dead.

It was common in 1930s Britain where millions of people

were still grieving loved ones that lost in the First World War. Edith Priti joined the

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