The cemetery found in Suffolk consists of at least 11 Anglo-Saxon burial mounds (barrows) dating to the 6th–7th centuries AD. While acidic sandy soils have dissolved the bones, the excavators have ...

British folklore tells the story of twin brothers Hengist and Horsa, who led the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain. But were they men or myth?

Archaeologists working near Skipsea Castle in East Yorkshire say a series of rare discoveries is transforming understanding ...

The 1,400 year-old "sand burials" of two people and a horse were found near a nuclear power plant construction site in the ...

It always amazes me how much history is still being uncovered today, despite the time that has been dedicated to looking and ...

By Dean Murray Archaeologists have uncovered a nationally significant Anglo-Saxon burial ground during excavations for the ...

FEW groups of people exert more power on English imagination than the Anglo-Saxons. They first appear in the historical record in the 1st millennium AD, in the wake of the Roman Empire’s retreat from ...

The remains of an Anglo-Saxon horse, buried alongside one or more high-status people, are a discovery of national ...

Activity 1: Anglo-Saxon village Activity 2: Quiz - Who were the Anglo-Saxons? Well let’s start at the beginning. The Anglo-Saxon age in Britain was about 410 to 1066 and they originally come from ...

You hear the term everywhere these days in politics, pop music, business, even race relations. Anglo-Saxon. With the advent of the Human Genome Project, we now know a bit more about who the ...

The five centuries between the end of Roman rule and the Norman Conquest were, for a long time, seen as a culturally desolate era in British history. Whereas classical civilisation was associated with ...