News

Archaeologists recovered 250 Anglo-Saxon artifacts from the cemetery, including knives, jewelry and pottery vessels. These grave goods, and the people they were buried with, were placed on top of ...
A massive Anglo-Saxon burial site has been uncovered in Northamptonshire in the U.K. Nearby, archaeologists also discovered a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age burial site. The archaeologists uncovered a ...
đź‘€Check out some of the amazing Anglo-Saxon finds from the @UniShefArch excavation in Scremby, Lincolnshire. Read more about this exciting dig and what it teaches us about early Anglo-Saxon ...
Archaeologists working in eastern England have discovered a previously unknown Anglo-Saxon cemetery dating back some 1,600 years. At least 20 graves have been uncovered, including many lavish ...
Experts have hailed the 1,600-year-old cemetery that was unearthed near the city of Leeds as a “once-in-a-lifetime” find that bridges the gap between the ancient and medieval periods.
The cemetery was first brought to light when a local metal dectorist began to discover a number of Anglo-Saxon artefacts, including copper gilded brooches, iron shield bosses and spear heads.
This Anglo-Saxon Cemetery Is Filled With Corpses’ Ghostly Silhouettes All that remains of several individuals buried in a 1,400-year-old graveyard are shadowy traces of their skeletons ...
DURHAM, ENGLAND—Two complete skeletons have been discovered in what is thought to be an Anglo-Saxon cemetery on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, off the northeast coast of England, according to a ...
As Donna Ferguson reports for the Guardian, the British university’s King’s College discovered the Anglo-Saxon cemetery while tearing down 1930s buildings ahead of construction of new housing.
Only one older woman, from the Worthy Park cemetery, received a very high-status burial. She was older than 75 years at death, and buried with a copper alloy brooch, a beaded necklace, copper belt ...
SUFFOLK, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that an Anglo-Saxon cemetery that may date to the sixth century A.D has been found at a site slated for residential development in the East of England, within ...
These burials yielded a range of grave goods from the sixth and seventh centuries A.D., which enabled archaeologists to date the cemetery to Britain's Anglo-Saxon period (A.D. 410 to 1066).