Britain’s most spectacular Anglo-Saxon treasures may well have been captured on a series of Dark Age battlefields – during bitter conflicts between rival English kingdoms.. Archaeologists, who ...

The Anglo-Saxon empire appeared about to follow the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, and the French into decline and decay. This was practically the situation a hundred years ago.

When the empire left Britain, the Germanic Anglo-Saxons conquered much of what is now England. The Anglo-Saxons' imitation "demonstrates a desire to plug into this vanished age," Marsden said.

Ad Gefrin in Wooler will loan a range of 6th and 7th century objects from the British Museum and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to tell the story of the Anglo-Saxon Golden Age, more specifically ...

Well, there are two: that “Anglo-Saxon” was “hardly used” by the Anglo-Saxons to refer to themselves; and that because racists have used the term, it has been in some way “contaminated”.

It is one of only 18 so-called "bed burials"—a rare Anglo-Saxon practice, ... isotopic analysis suggested that the girl had moved to England around the age of 7 and that close to the end of her ...

Learn facts about the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in this BBC Bitesize guide for year 5/6. ... This brought an end to Anglo-Saxon and Viking rule. A new age of Norman rule in England had started.

The pagan Anglo-Saxons copied a gold Roman coin with Christian imagery, but they didn't do a very good job. ... 1,000-year-old Viking Age hoard has a pendant that may be a cross or Thor's hammer; ...