High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Snape boat grave is a 6th century boat grave found at Snape Common, near Aldeburgh in Suffolk, East Anglia. This was the first boat grave of its kind discovered in England and foreshadowed the discovery of the two large ship-burials, one of them plundered, at Sutton Hoo, Mounds 1 and 2. It appears certain that Sutton Hoo Mound 2 was opened at about the same time as the Snape excavation, because there is a report of that date of a large quantity of iron ship-rivets having been excavated there and afterwards rendered into horseshoes. A group of barrows was excavated here in 1862 under the direction of Septimus Davidson and Nicholas Fenwick Hele of Aldeburgh, and the remains of a clinker-built boat about 15 m long was found in the soil under the largest of the barrows. The ship had been used to contain a high status burial, and had been lowered into land which had previously contained cremated burials in urns, some of which had been carefully removed and reburied when the ship was mound-laid.

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