> But why all this effort to re-create a burial ship? Burial ships are generally how we have found out details of such old ships, as otherwise they'd have rott

> But why all this effort to re-create a burial ship? Burial ships are generally how we have found out details of such old ships, as otherwise they'd have rotted away, or been chopped up, at the end of their lives. Similar to Viking ships. It's not like they're trying to recreate the burial. They want to sail it and see how it works, giving us information on life back in the Saxon days.