Sutton Hoo of the north: £10.4m visitor centre to celebrate Anglo-Saxon site

Story of Ad Gefrin, a royal complex in Northumberland valley discovered in 1950s, to be told at new attraction

Just here would have been the great hall," says Chris Ferguson to a Guardian reporter and a dozen indifferent sheep chewing grass in a stunning Northumberland valley.

Over there would have been the royal residence and behind that, a grandstand. We are on top of one of the most important sites of Anglo-Saxon history anywhere in this country."