Since then, the cemetery has then been unearthed twice from the year of 1939. Throughout the course of analysing the cemetery, Basil Brown questions the structure of both the ship, the large mound and its connection between the ship and its burial ditch.
The second excavation during the time of 1983-1992 were held by both the British museum and the Society of Antiquaries of London. The excavation was to explore the relationship between the cemetery and the land. Several other mounds and flat land were also examined. During the time 1983-1992, archaeologists were able to discover that the site was used for a short period of time in early 600AD as an ancient burial ground for people with the up-most importance/rank. It was then later used for simpler burials and even gibbets for execution to take place on site. All but mound 17 was robbed but, archaeologists were able to recover the remains of a young man and horse, robed in splendid harness and armour fittings inside the untouched mound. .
The most recent excavation I have encountered during my research of Sutton Hoo was in the year 2000. The area which underwent the procedure of excavation was The National Trust Visitor Centre and Tranmer House. This work was led by the Suffolk council which was funded by the Sutton Hoo Society in order to protect and conserve the state of the site. Underneath the landscape of these two houses/centers an Anglo-Saxon cemetery was located. In the field of archaeology, tools such as shovels, tape measurers, toothbrushes, brooms and dustpans are all common household objects that are commonly used in an archaeology practice. The most important and common tool used by an archaeologist is called the trowel. A trowel is used to cautiously eradicate thin layers of soil from test components. Photographs are taken throughout the course of this investigation to keep record of any artefact findings or important factors of the site.
