The famous helmet is among the Anglo-Saxon artifacts that indicate an eastern link with the Byzantine Empire. The famous ...
Anglo-Saxons was the name given to this group of ... Some were invited to help fight against attacks from Vikings and tribes in Scotland. Many were given land in return. There was good farmland ...
After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...
The teaching aimed to explain that Anglo-saxon, Scottish, Welsh and Irish identities were not 'coherent.' In the wake of the ...
The Guardian reports that a sword dated to the sixth century has been discovered in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in southeastern ...
Archaeologists discovered a sixth-century sword in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the British county of Kent. The immaculately preserved sword was one of a handful of artifacts found at a site that ...
The Gold Penny, or Mancus of 30 Pence, was unearthed by a metal detectorist in a field near West Dean A "unique" Anglo-Saxon coin found in a field in south Wiltshire is expected to fetch up to £ ...
In the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf the warrior Sigemund has ... who helped bring Christianity to Scotland in the late sixth century. From there monks spread the faith to England.
The early Anglo-Saxon creator was imitating a Roman coin called a solidus, showing the emperor Honorius on one side and a figure holding a banner on the other A "very unusual" gold pendant made by ...