About Our Suffolk
This is a group which aims to highlight the beauty, history and diversity of the county of Suffolk in eastern England.
Suffolk was the southern part of the kingdom of East Anglia, which was settled by the Angles, a people from the south-east corner of the Jytland peninsula (now in Germany), in the 5th century AD. It is from these people that the word England derives, so they could, apaisonymically, be said to be the first true English - as opposed to Britons (or Celts).
West Suffolk is, like nearby East Cambridgeshire , renowned for archaeological finds from the Stone Age , the Bronze Age and the Iron Age . Bronze Age artefacts have been found in the area between Mildenhall and West Row , in Eriswell and in Lakenheath . Many bronze objects, such as swords, spearheads, arrows, axes, palstaves , knives, daggers, rapiers, armour, decorative equipment (in particular for horses) and fragments of sheet bronze, are entrusted to St Edmundsbury heritage service, housed at West Stow just outside Bury St Edmunds. Other finds include traces of cremations and barrows .
In the East of the county is Sutton Hoo , the site of one of England's most signicant Anglo-Saxon archæological finds; a ship burial containing a collection of treasures including a Sword of State , gold and silver bowls and jewellery and a lyre .
King of East Anglia and Christian martyr St Edmund (after whom the town of Bury St Edmunds is named) was killed by invading Danes in the year 869. St Edmund was the patron saint of England until he was replaced by St George in the thirteenth century.
2006 saw the failure of a campaign to have St Edmund re-named as the patron saint of England, but in 2007 he was named patron saint of Suffolk, with St Edmund's Day falling on 20 November. His flag will be flown in Suffolk on that day.
Please check out my other Suffolk-based Flickr groups, Beautiful Babergh and Suffolk Pink.
www.flickr.com/groups/beautiful_babergh/
www.flickr.com/groups/1481815@N20/
<b><i>What a fabulous picture!!!</i>
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What a fabulous picture!!!
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<b><i>What a fabulous picture!!!</i>
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