Near the end of Roman rule, Britain was being attacked by the Picts and Scots from the north, and the Anglo-Saxons from the sea. The Romans built forts to defend the coast and Hadrian's wall ...

Archaeologists believe they found a residence of medieval ruler Harold Godwinson, England’s last Anglo-Saxon king. A nearby ...

British archaeologists have located the remains of an 11th-century royal residence in Bosham, West Sussex—almost certainly ...

So they tended to rot over time. Unfortunately, there are no original Anglo-Saxon settlements left in Britain today. Most Saxons lived on villages and farms like this because they provided ...

Archaeologists have likely found King Harold’s lost residence in Bosham, shown in the Bayeux Tapestry, confirming its elite ...

Beneath medieval Bamburgh Castle on England’s northeast coast lie ... He had previously dug at a nearby early royal Anglo-Saxon settlement called Yeavering that he believed was a co-capital ...

Although Harold is famous for being England’s last Anglo-Saxon king, he only reigned for just over nine months. His defeat and death at the Battle of Hastings was arguably the single most ...

The silver penny brooch dates to the end of the reign of the last Anglo-Saxon king, says an expert. The items will form part of an exhibition that will be held at a museum in Scunthorpe.

of a kind never before recovered in Britain. Examining the artifacts, they concluded that the settlement was not Viking, as first assumed, but Anglo-Saxon. The significance of Sutton Hoo was ...

The Bayeux Tapestry culminates in William’s victory in the Battle of Hastings. However, earlier artwork from the time also ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that a house in Bosham, West Sussex, was once the residence of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England. The site appears in the famous Bayeux ...