Most ordinary Anglo-Saxons thought he was a bit weird with ... Canterbury and Lindisfarne helped the rich and poor, royalty and ordinary folk of Britain to shift from worshipping many gods to ...

A storyteller played music on a small harp or a lyre to accompany their stories and poems. Anglo-Saxon jewellers made brooches, beads and gold ornaments. At first, their artwork was pagan ...

Archaeologists have pinpointed the exact location of King Harold's palace in Bosham, West Sussex - thanks to the discovery of ...

New research suggests Sutton Hoo burial mounds in Suffolk may have contained Byzantine soldiers rather than Anglo-Saxon royalty, a groundbreaking study by an Oxford University academic has revealed.

Items found beneath the mounds suggest that the people buried there were important, perhaps even royalty ... Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?, ...

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 ...