Basil Brown – Wikipedia

Basil John Wait Brown (22 January 1888 – 12 March 1977) was an English self-taught archaeologist and astronomer who in 1939 discovered and excavated a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in “one of the most important archaeological discoveries of all time”.. Although described as an amateur archaeologist, Brown’s career as a paid excavation employee for a provincial museum …

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