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.

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Yorkshire treasure stash unearthed after 1,000 years

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MORE than a thousand years ago a Saxon thief, desperate to hide his plunder, stashed a hoard of stolen gold in what is today a nondescript W...

Ancient burial site found at Boscastle

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AN ANCIENT burial site dating from the Dark Ages has been discovered at Boscastle during work to create a new waste water scheme for the are...
Sunday, 14 June 2009

Students unearth Saxon nunnery

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Archaeologists believe they could have found the first-ever excavated Saxon nunnery, on a dig in Gloucestershire. The annual dig, by the Uni...

Frühmittelalterliche Sonnenuhr aus dem Neusser Kloster St. Quirin

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Eine Sonnenuhr des 9.-10. Jahrhunderts aus dem ehemaligen Kloster St. Quirin in Neuss konnte jetzt anhand von archäologischen Fragmenten rek...
Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Wearmouth-Jarrow Nomination For World Heritage Site

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The twin Anglo-Saxon monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow in northeast England will be the UK’s nomination for World Heritage Site status in 2010. ...
Saturday, 6 June 2009

The Saxons were coming! A tiny sword stud found under a shop rewrites Welsh history

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AT BARELY a centimetre across and almost unrecognisable after centuries underground, it may not look much, but could shed light on an almost...
Thursday, 4 June 2009

The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Landscape and Economy (VASLE) Project

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In the last fifteen years the role of metal-detected objects in the study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian England has greatly increase...
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...
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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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