It is true that town life was abandoned. However, the skill of Anglo-Saxon art, metal-work and manuscripts does not suggest a ‘dark age’ at all. Archaeology is revealing new treasures ...

The famous helmet is among the Anglo-Saxon artifacts that indicate an eastern ... features that indicate they were copies of Byzantine armor, study author Helen Gittos, a medieval historian ...

These martial artifacts, in turn, suggested that the man interred in the ship burial at Sutton Hoo — possibly the early Anglo-Saxon king Raedwald — had brought back Byzantine armor after ...