Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved elite sword from a newly discovered Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Canterbury. This rare find provides valuable insights into early Medieval ...

It was found in 2018 in a cemetery with 49 other graves dating to A.D. 480 to 540, during the Anglo-Saxon period. The fully intact vessel was placed at the head of an adolescent female ...

A large and important Anglo-Saxon cemetery was excavated near Lechlade, Gloucestershire in 1985. The site had been earmarked for housing and was excavated by Oxford Archaeological Unit.

Modern studies of wounds on skeletons found in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Kent show that these beautiful swords also worked: "Male, aged 25-35 years … has a single linear cranial injury 16 ...

Physical evidence of how justice worked in Anglo-Saxon England has been found at the Saxon judicial execution cemetery at Harestock on the outskirts of Winchester. Archaeologist Andrew Reynolds ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...