London in your lunch hour
A whistlestop tour of the British Museum
When you've had enough of the grisly stuff, forge ahead to the Middle Ages gallery and feast your eyes on the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial (Room 41). Dug up in 1938 in Suffolk, it remains the most amazing trove of Anglo-Saxon treasure yet found, including a magnificent helmet, swords and belts.
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