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.

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Staffordshire hoard site yields further 90 fragments

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Staffordshire hoard: part of a helmet was among the pieces unearthed in the Hammerwich field last month. Photograph: Staffordshire count...

Staffordshire Hoard: Gold fragments found in Hammerwich

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About 90 more pieces of gold and silver believed to belong to the Staffordshire Hoard have been found. The discovery was ma...
Monday, 17 December 2012

Saxon graves uncovered at St Margaret's

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Five Saxon graves have been discovered by archaeologists at St Margaret’s. The graves were unearthed at The Droveway by Keith Parfitt, of...
Sunday, 16 December 2012

University of Oxford Online Courses in Archaeology

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Now is the time to enrol for Hilary term online courses in Archaeology. Each courses lasts for 10 weeks, with the expectation of ...
Monday, 26 November 2012

Anglo-Saxon treasure reveals west Norfolk cremation

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Fragments of an early Anglo-Saxon silver brooch found in Norfolk has given archaeologists new evidence of a cremation burial in the ...
Sunday, 18 November 2012

Summer Courses in Archaeology

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Oxford Experience Archaeology Courses The Oxford Experience Summer School offers weekly introductory courses in the Sciences and Humani...
Monday, 5 November 2012

Archaeologists reveal rare Anglo-Saxon feasting hall

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A rare Anglo-Saxon feasting hall has been spectacularly uncovered by a team of archaeologists from the University of Reading working at ...

Saxon find in Lyminge has historians partying like it's 599

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A still from the 2007 motion-capture film Beowulf. The epic poem featured a great hall of its own, Heorot, whose ‘radiance shone over ...

Anglo-Saxon hall found in Kent is 'tip of the iceberg'

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An Anglo-Saxon feasting hall unearthed beneath a village green in Kent could represent the "tip of the iceberg", according ...
Monday, 15 October 2012

The Anglo-Saxons are coming!

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Producer Beaty Rubens introduces a new, extended series of The Essay on Radio 3 – three blocks of ten episodes stretching in to 2013, the ...
Thursday, 11 October 2012

Archaeology Summer Courses in Oxford

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The Oxford Experience, Christ Church, Oxford The Oxford Experience summer school offers one-week introductory classes in the huma...
Thursday, 4 October 2012

Oxford Experience on Facebook

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The Oxford Experience - an Oxford University summer school that offers many courses in archaeology and history - now has a Facebook sit...
Thursday, 27 September 2012

Westminster Abbey staff clean floor around Edward the Confessor's tomb

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Conservation staff at Westminster Abbey clean the Cosmati pavement surrounding the tomb of Edward the Confessor and asses it for conser...
Monday, 10 September 2012

Ipswich waterfront Saxon dig unearths 300 graves

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An archaeological dig at Ipswich waterfront has unearthed 300 skeletons and evidence of an old church. The excavation is taking pla...
Wednesday, 8 August 2012

Soldiers injured in Afghanistan make surprise find on UK archaeology dig

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Remains of an Anglo Saxon warrior, buried with his spear and a bronze-bound drinking cup, after he was was discovered by modern sold...
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 ...
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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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