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.

Saturday, 28 July 2012

Discovery of early medieval royal stronghold in southwest Scotland

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Trusty's Hill Pictish carving. Image: Galloway Picts Project A recent Heritage Lottery funded archaeological excavation has disco...

Christian burial ground unearthed in West Cumbria

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When excavation work started on Camp Farm adjacent to the Senhouse Museum archaeologists believed they were looking at late Roman bu...
Thursday, 26 July 2012

Work starts on Easter Ross's Nigg cross-slab

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Detail on the Nigg cross-slab which dates from the 8th Century AD Conservation work has started on an intricately carved Picti...
Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Climate in Northern Europe Reconstructed for the Past 2,000 Years: Cooling Trend Calculated Precisely for the First Time

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An international team that includes scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has published a reconstruction of the c...
Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Oakington: Life and death in the East Anglian Fens

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Anglo-Saxon skeletons have been surfacing for almost a century in the fields of Oakington. Now a new project has laid bare the trials ...

Cow and woman found in Anglo-Saxon dig

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Archaeologists excavating an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Cambridgeshire say the discovery of a woman buried with a cow is a "genuinel...
Monday, 21 May 2012

Anglo-Saxons and hand-saex

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As an invitation to explore the wonders of Old English, hand-saex is certainly arresting. The Dictionary of Old English, based at the...

New Look for the Current Archaeology Website

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Current Archaeology now has a dedicated news editor in-house, and the news articles are now posted on our website as the stories break...
Sunday, 13 May 2012

Abbey excavations reveal Saxon glass industry

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New research led by the University of Reading has revealed that finds at Glastonbury Abbey provide the earliest archaeological evidence...
Thursday, 10 May 2012

Glastonbury Abbey excavations reveal Saxon glass industry

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(Phys.org) -- New research led by the University of Reading has revealed that finds at Glastonbury...
Tuesday, 8 May 2012

Glastonbury Abbey excavations find Saxon glass industry

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New research on glass fragments found at Glastonbury Abbey in the 1950s reveals the earliest archaeological evidence of glass-making in...
Saturday, 5 May 2012

Graves unearthed in Caistor dated to seventh century

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An exciting excavation in Caistor could prove to be "sensational" should carbon dating results prove it contains remains from...
Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Oxford Online Courses in Archaeology

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The University of Oxford's online courses in archaeology for Trinity term are now open for enrolment. "Cave painting...
Monday, 23 April 2012

York Minster tantalises archaeologists with hints of Saxon church

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What happened after the Romans left and the Vikings of Jorvik arrived? Two post holes and a jumble of bones may hold a clue ...
Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Loftus Anglo-Saxon artefact haul wins cultural award

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  Some of the jewellery on display at the exhibition   A collection of Anglo-Saxon artefacts discovered in East Cleveland ...
Monday, 16 April 2012

Ridley Hall dig reveals Roman and Saxon finds

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Archaeologists have found Roman and Saxon jewellery and tools in the grounds of a theological college in Cambridge. The dig is in advan...
Sunday, 15 April 2012

Scientists find runes on ancient comb

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Archaeologists have found the oldest engravings of letters ever to be discovered in central Germany, officials from the area announ...
Monday, 26 March 2012

Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers - Online Course

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University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education Mon 14 May to Fri 27 Jul 2012 Ravagers, despoilers, pagans, heathens - t...
Thursday, 22 March 2012

Photos: Bejeweled Anglo-Saxon Found in Christian "Burial Bed"

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The skeleton of a young Christian noblewoman, who was laid to rest on a "burial bed" some 1,400 years ago, is giving archaeo...
Sunday, 18 March 2012

Remains of dark ages princess found in field in Cambridge

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    VIEW GALLERY The remains of a mysterious Anglo-Saxon princess, who died  thirteen and a half centuries ago, have bee...
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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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