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The 90-foot-long (27-meter) wooden ship was dragged half a mile (0.8 kilometer) from the River Deben when an Anglo-Saxon warrior king died 1,400 years ago.
The raven's head, also believed to be Anglo-Saxon and date to the seventh century, included a stunning garnet eye and tiny gold spheres outlining the garnet-flecked "feathers." ...
CANTERBURY, ENGLAND—The Guardian reports that a sword dated to the sixth century has been discovered in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in southeastern England. The weapon features a gild and silver ...
A "very unusual" gold pendant made by an early Anglo-Saxon in imitation of a Roman coin has been discovered by a detectorist. The replica is a copy of a solidus coin showing the emperor Honorius ...
Anglo-Saxon evidence of a settlement has been found in Holderness. Archaeologists working on Dogger Bank Wind Farm will reveal their finds at a public event next week.
Media Major UK university to remove term 'Anglo-Saxon' to 'decolonize' curriculum Such overhauls are allegedly aimed at 'undercutting nationalist narratives’ a source told UK's The Telegraph ...
A university has removed the term Anglo-Saxon from module titles in a bid to 'decolonise the curriculum.' The University of Nottingham is removing the expression from a number of courses ...
Say the term “Anglo-Saxon” to most people, and they’re likely to picture the Smashing Saxons from Horrible Historiesor the protagonists of Bernard Cornwell’s The Last Kingdom. In the ...
Anglo-Saxons would have called this spider an ‘attercoppe.’ | James Rowland/500px/Getty Images First recorded in a medical textbook dating from the 11th century, attercoppe was the Old English ...