property of Major M. C. Barton, Bromeswell (Suffolk) near Woodbridge, overlooks the river Deben (pron. di vn, di bbn) and is about two miles SSW of Rendlesham, once the seat of the Anglo-Saxon kings of East Anglia. The ship with its treasure was buried in a barrow about 100 ft above water-level and some 800 yards inland; it was excavated in June and July 1939. In a letter of 15 April 1952 Mr Guy Maynard, Curator emeritus of the Museum of Natural hIistory, Ethnology, and Archaeology, in the Borough of Ipswich (Suffolk), reminds me that It is still not widely realized that no structural remains [of the ship] still existed when we found it in 1939. All that was to be seen was the sooty shadow in the sand caused by the decay of the timber, with, of course, the nails still in position.... The only actual wood found in the 1939 ship was the length of timber on the bottomai of the hull where there was mnore moisture; possibly also, since it must have been largely covered up by the mass of clothes and other objects, these may have tended to conserve the water and so helped preserve it. The grave-goods, of a inagnificence unequalled in Western Europe, were moved to the British Museum on 3 August, the gold and silver objects were on 4 August found by a coroner's jury not to be treasure-trove; the whole was presented to the Museum by Mrs Pretty on 22 August and constitutes the greatest gift ever received by the British Museum from a living person. When it becoines practicable, electrotrype replicas of the finds will, in accordance with the wishes of Mrs Pretty, be deposited in the Museum of Natural HIistory in Ipswich. With the outbreak of World WVar II the treasure was moved from the British Museum to a place of safekeeping and in April 1940 to an even safer hiding place. In 1939 and 1940 a photographic exhibition of the excavation and the treasure was held in the entrance hall of the British Museum, but the treasure itself was not seen by the public until 24 April 1946, when the museum was reopened after the war. The ship, an 80-foot rowing boat (originally about 86 feet long), served as a cenotaph (with no body) for either the East Anglian king Anna (d. 654) or, less