Friday, 18 December 2009

How did King Harold die at the Battle of Hastings

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A recent article is challenging the notion that the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson was killed by an arrow to the eye during the famous Ba...
Saturday, 12 December 2009

The Market Rasen Sword

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This doesn’t really count as news, but I have only just discovered this three-part video on the Market Rasen (East Lincolnshire) Sword. Part...

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Wednesday, 2 December 2009

New evidence found about the Battle of Fulford

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The discovery of over a thousand pieces of iron, including arrowheads and axe heads, may provide valuable new details about the Battle of Fu...

'Pillaging' Vikings unmasked as eco warriors

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THEIR reputation for raping and pillaging may not have set them out as the ideal role-models for an environmentally-friendly way of life. Bu...
Friday, 27 November 2009

'No tax cash' for treasure hoard

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Birmingham council taxpayers will not have to pay to acquire a haul of 7th Century Anglo-Saxon treasure, according to plans by the city'...
Thursday, 26 November 2009

Anglo-Saxon gold is worth £3.285m

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A haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure recently unearthed in Staffordshire has been valued at £3.285m. The money will be split between metal detecto...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/nov/26/staffordshire-anglo-saxon-hoard-millions

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The Staffordshire Hoard, the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found, has been valued at £3.3 million by the Treasure Valuatio...

Staffordshire Anglo-Saxon treasure hoard valued at £3.3m

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The largest and arguably most beautiful hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found in Britain has been valued at nearly £3.3m by a panel of expert...
Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Bid to map out 7th-century abbey

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Ancient ruins in Lincolnshire are to be uncovered as part of a plan to map out the history of a former abbey. A team of archaeologists are c...
Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Anglo-Saxon treasure found in Norfolk

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A silver-gilded knob dating back to the late 6th or early 7th century has been declared as treasure at a Norwich inquest. The knob has a cas...
Friday, 13 November 2009

Bid to bring Anglo Saxon gold hoard home

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A CASH value could be placed on the Staffordshire Hoard by the end of this month giving Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery its first clear in...
Wednesday, 11 November 2009

One step closer to bringing our treasure hoard back home

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Hopes of bringing the Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure back to its home county and region have been given a boost after the Briti...
Tuesday, 10 November 2009

This treasure stirs the West Midlands' Anglo-Saxon soul

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The Staffordshire hoard has brought history to life in modern-day Mercia – and it is here that the collection has to return From the Lindisf...
Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Anglo-Saxon treasures on display

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A small selection of the most important Anglo-Saxon find since the discovery of the Sutton Hoo burial site has gone on display at the Britis...

Staffordshire treasure hoard goes on show at British Museum

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Some of the most spectacular treasure finds made in Britain have gone on display at the British Museum, still caked with the clay of the Sta...
Monday, 2 November 2009

City reveals 'Bronze Age site'

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Archaeologists have unearthed what they say could be a prehistoric Bronze Age burial site in central Oxford. Experts say important chiefs ma...
Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Welcome to the AD 410 web site

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2010 marks the 1600th anniversary of the end of Roman Britain in AD 410 - one of the greatest turning points in our history. What was life o...
Monday, 19 October 2009

Sutton Hoo welcomes monumental treasure into collection

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After Birmingham Museum's breathtaking temporary display of the Staffordshire Hoard, the National Trust at Sutton Hoo have this week rev...
Sunday, 18 October 2009

Knot found in hoard jewels

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Archaeologists have discovered a Staffordshire Knot symbol among the treasures of the Staffordshire Hoard, making the county sign 500 years ...