The famous helmet is among the Anglo-Saxon artifacts that indicate an eastern link with the Byzantine Empire. The famous ...

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 ...

A British monk called Gildas wrote in Latin in around AD530. However, he doesn't write much about the Anglo-Saxon settlements, since he is too busy writing about the British tribes fighting each ...

A replica Anglo-Saxon farm settlement is hosting finds discovered at a "unique" 1,400-year-old palace complex. More than 50 artefacts discovered during an excavation at Rendlesham, Suffolk ...

Anglo-Saxons began to settle in England in from AD410, and by AD500 were being fiercely resisted, in a period which used to be known as the Dark Ages, but is now called early medieval by historians.

Small settlements were here from the beginning, but the core area really took off in the late Anglo-Saxon period with the establishment of Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster.