Striking pictures show boat set ablaze at Dark Ages festival

Suffolk's first Saxon and Viking festival ended with a spectacular torchlit parade and boat burning display Picture: CAMERON MOORCROFT (Image: CAMERON MOORCROFT)

The festival, the first of its kind in Suffolk, offered modern day warriors young and old the chance to experience a taste of what life was like in Dark Ages East Anglia.

These striking pictures show the torchlit parade and boat burning display that rounded off the festivities at dusk.

Suffolk's first Saxon and Viking festival ended with a spectacular torchlit parade and boat burning display Picture: CAMERON MOORCROFT (Image: CAMERON MOORCROFT)

Suffolk's first Saxon and Viking festival ended with a spectacular torchlit parade and boat burning display Picture: CAMERON MOORCROFT (Image: CAMERON MOORCROFT)

Suffolk's first Saxon and Viking festival ended with a spectacular torchlit parade and boat burning display Picture: CAMERON MOORCROFT (Image: CAMERON MOORCROFT)

Suffolk's first Saxon and Viking festival ended with a spectacular torchlit parade and boat burning display Picture: CAMERON MOORCROFT (Image: CAMERON MOORCROFT)

Suffolk's first Saxon and Viking festival ended with a spectacular torchlit parade and boat burning display Picture: CAMERON MOORCROFT (Image: CAMERON MOORCROFT)

Suffolk's first Saxon and Viking festival ended with a spectacular torchlit parade and boat burning display Picture: CAMERON MOORCROFT (Image: CAMERON MOORCROFT)

Suffolk's first Saxon and Viking festival ended with a spectacular torchlit parade and boat burning display Picture: CAMERON MOORCROFT (Image: CAMERON MOORCROFT)

Suffolk's first Saxon and Viking festival ended with a spectacular torchlit parade and boat burning display Picture: CAMERON MOORCROFT (Image: CAMERON MOORCROFT)

Suffolk's first Saxon and Viking festival ended with a spectacular torchlit parade and boat burning display Picture: CAMERON MOORCROFT (Image: CAMERON MOORCROFT)

Suffolk's first Saxon and Viking festival ended with a spectacular torchlit parade and boat burning display Picture: CAMERON MOORCROFT (Image: CAMERON MOORCROFT)

Suffolk's first Saxon and Viking festival ended with a spectacular torchlit parade and boat burning display Picture: CAMERON MOORCROFT (Image: CAMERON MOORCROFT)

Suffolk's first Saxon and Viking festival ended with a spectacular torchlit parade and boat burning display Picture: CAMERON MOORCROFT (Image: CAMERON MOORCROFT)

Suffolk's first Saxon and Viking festival ended with a spectacular torchlit parade and boat burning display Picture: CAMERON MOORCROFT (Image: CAMERON MOORCROFT)