Sutton Hoo

Bethell. P. H. and Smith, J. U. (1989). Trace-element analysis of an inhumation from Sutton Hoo, using inductively coupled plasma emission-spectrometry - an evaluation of the technique applied to analysis of organic residues. Journal of Archaeological Science 16 47-55. 

Bethell, P. H. and Carver, M. O. H. (1987). Detection and enhancement of decayed inhumations at Sutton Hoo, in Death, Decay and Reconstruction Approaches to Archaeology and Forensic Science (A. Boddington, A. N. Garland, and R. C. Janaway, Eds.). Manchester, UK Manchester University Press, 10-21. 

Dollerap marshals a range of evidence to support this possibility, and we know that barrows were cut into in England and sometimes found to contain bones and urns (indeed John Dee himself may have cut into the Sutton Hoo ship-barrow), so that it would not be surprising for Shakespeare to register an interest in a story associated with one. 

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