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But large mounds like those found at Sutton Hoo were almost certainly the final resting places for Anglo-Saxon nobility such as King Rædwald. The Sutton Hoo discovery shows that the "Dark Ages ...

Below the king were the earls, the ruling nobility. The earl was the king's ‘right hand man’ in a shire. The position was not hereditary, but it became usual in the 10th century to choose ...