Internationales Sachsensymposion

[1][2] A secondary stated goal "is to discuss the relevant relationships that existed between all these populations and that can be detected in the countries bordering the North and Baltic Seas.

"[1] The organisation has been credited with stimulating the publication of material from both the collections of museums, and contemporary excavations,[3] and is considered the authoritative forum for the discussion of the archaeology of northwestern Europe in the first millennium AD.

[4] Membership is by election; today the organisation comprises approximately 180 members, from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and the United States.

[7] The 24th rendition, held in London in September 1973,[9] was the occasion for the "theatrical" unveiling of the Royal Armouries replica of the Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo helmet.

[12][11] Members of the Sachsensymposion hail from eleven countries, and include Martin Carver, Helena Hamerow, Barbara Yorke, and Alex Woolf.