Anglo-Saxon Archaeology Blog

The Anglo-Saxon Archaeology Blog is concerned with news reports featuring Anglo-Saxon period archaeology. If you wish to see news reports for general European archaeology, please go to The Archaeology of Europe Weblog.

Thursday, 2 April 2009

Top Saxon experts visit the museum

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NATIONAL experts on Anglo-Saxon England were in Whitby recently. The Anglo-Saxon weekend was organised by Jo Heron, secretary of the Yorkshi...
Thursday, 26 March 2009

Worthing metal detector enthusiast finds rare penny worth £2,000

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AFTER years of searching, the penny finally dropped for a Worthing metal detectorist when he found a coin worth £2,000. Clive Nobbs discover...
Friday, 20 March 2009

70th anniversary of Sutton Hoo's discovery

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It was in 1939 an astonishing discovery was made at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk - the ship burial of an Anglo-Saxon warrior king and his most trea...
Saturday, 14 March 2009

Anglo-Saxon Art in the Round takes over Ipswich's Gallery 3

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Visitors entering Gallery 3 in Ipswich will soon find themselves transported back to an era of our country’s history dominated by warriors a...

Town's roots go back to the 8th Century

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS have made an exciting discovery that proves people were in Wisbech in the 8th Century – much earlier than previously thought....
Tuesday, 10 March 2009

Rare silver penny unearthed in Winchester

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EXCITED archaeologists have unearthed a key piece of Hampshire’s heritage. They have uncovered a rare silver penny that would have been curr...
Monday, 9 March 2009

North Yorkshire's heritage goes on line

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FULL details of some of North Yorkshire’s finest historic monuments is being published on the internet for the first time. The Historic Envi...
Friday, 27 February 2009

'Oldest English words' identified

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Some of the oldest words in English have been identified, scientists say. Reading University researchers claim "I", "we"...
Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Heritage at Risk from Nighthawking

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New Survey Reveals Low Levels of Prosecution and Crime Reporting A national survey commissioned by English Heritage and supported by its cou...
Tuesday, 10 February 2009

University's medical hi-tech technology used on rare artefact

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A HI-TECH medical imaging technique is being used to help unlock the secrets of a priceless 1,000 year old artefact. The Fadden More Psalter...
Sunday, 8 February 2009

Saxon Cemetary discovered near Lewes

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Two men have spoken of "the find of a lifetime" when they uncovered a Saxon cemetery while metal detecting near Lewes. Bob White a...
Wednesday, 4 February 2009

Pair unearth Saxon burial remains

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The remains of a 1,500-year-old Saxon burial ground have been uncovered by two Sussex metal detector enthusiasts. Bob White and Cliff Smith ...
Saturday, 31 January 2009

Oxford study aims to trace Cornish roots

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A study which could prove that people in Cornwall and Devon can trace their roots to the Ancient Britons is being carried out in the two cou...
Thursday, 22 January 2009

Record archaelogical finds in Norfolk

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Record amounts of archaeological finds are being uncovered in Norfolk - at a greater rate than anywhere else in the whole of Great Britain -...
Thursday, 8 January 2009

Wearmouth Jarrow - Anglo-Saxon monastery

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BUSINESS people and celebrities will be joining forces with church leaders this year in a final push to have a NorthEast monastery declared ...
Friday, 12 December 2008

Fifth Century settlement located

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A Fifth Century Germanic settlement has been discovered on land set out for regeneration in Kent. A team of 30 archaeologists has been study...
Monday, 24 November 2008

MUSEUMS, METAL DETECTORISTS AND BRITAIN'S RICH ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE

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A stunning golden torc dating from the Iron Age, a hoard of over 3,600 Roman coins and a tiny Anglo Saxon roundel depicting the Hand of God ...
Monday, 17 November 2008

Roman settlement unearthed near Penrith

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A Roman settlement has been unearthed near Penrith by workman preparing the ground for a sewage pipe. The civilian vicus, which is thought t...
Tuesday, 11 November 2008

Anglo-Saxon Kent Electronic Database (ASKED)

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ASKED, the Anglo-Saxon Kent Electronic Database was built collaboratively by Stuart Brookes and Sue Harrington to facilitate our respective ...
Thursday, 2 October 2008

Ninth century tag discovered

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A SILVER Saxon clothes fastener found by a metal detector enthusiast near Dorchester has been declared as treasure. The hooked tag dating ba...
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David Beard MA, FSA, FSA Scot
I am a freelance archaeologist and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland specializing in the medieval period. I have worked as a field archaeologist for the Department of Environment (Northern Ireland) and the Museum of London. I have been involved in continuing education for many years and have taught for the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE) and the Universities of London, Essex, Ulster, and the London College of the University of Notre Dame, and I was the Archaeological Consultant for Southwark Cathedral. I am the author of and tutor for an OUDCE online course on the Vikings, and the Programme Director and Academic Director for the Oxford Experience Summer School.
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