Talk: Professor Christopher Scull - Rendlesham & the East Anglian Kingdom
Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, IP15 5BN
Wednesday 16th September 2026
The Aldeburgh and District Local History Society in collaboration with the Aldeburgh Society has arranged a special lecture by Professor Christopher Scull.
In 2007 illegal metal-detecting alerted archaeologists to a site of exceptional importance at Rendlesham in south-east Suffolk – the 7th-century East Anglian royal centre mentioned by the Venerable Bede in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
Archaeologist Professor Christopher Scull, who helped lead the project, guides you through the 15-year investigation which has revealed the largest and wealthiest settlement of its time known in England, and changed how we think about the earliest English kingdoms and their rulers.
Image: The royal hall at Rendlesham under excavation in 2022, with St Gregory’s Church in the background.
Image: Jim Pullen © Suffolk County Council.
In 2007 illegal metal-detecting alerted archaeologists to a site of exceptional importance at Rendlesham in south-east Suffolk – the 7th-century East Anglian royal centre mentioned by the Venerable Bede in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
Archaeologist Professor Christopher Scull, who helped lead the project, guides you through the 15-year investigation which has revealed the largest and wealthiest settlement of its time known in England, and changed how we think about the earliest English kingdoms and their rulers.
Image: The royal hall at Rendlesham under excavation in 2022, with St Gregory’s Church in the background.
Image: Jim Pullen © Suffolk County Council.
