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, 25 June 2013

The Sutton Hoo Online Exhibition

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In 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War, an archaeologist named Basil Brown excavated the largest of 18 burial mounds i...

From Sutton Hoo to the soccer pitch: culture with a click

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Museums, libraries and galleries are a tourist staple of the summer holiday season. Often they’re the first place we head to when visitin...
Sunday, 2 June 2013

HaNoA - Häfen im Nordatlantik

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Der Hafen von Búðasandur, Hvalfjörður, Island. Die Überreste eines Handelsplatzes befinden sich in der Bildmitte, das mittelalterliche ...
Tuesday, 14 May 2013

High-tech dig finds Roman farmstead

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A high-tech research park is going to be built on land that once housed a Roman farmstead. An archaeological dig on the site of what will ...
Friday, 26 April 2013

Online Courses in Archaeology

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University of Oxford Online Courses in Archaeology Cave paintings, castles and pyramids, Neanderthals, Romans and Vikings - archaeol...
Sunday, 21 April 2013

The Battle of Fulford: War breaks out over 'forgotten' Yorkshire battlefield

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Local historians say it's the site of the curtain-raiser to Hastings in 1066. The council wants to build hundreds of houses on it ...
Monday, 15 April 2013

Northampton Castle dig reveals Saxon past

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A "rare" Saxon brooch, a medieval harness, pottery and animal bones are among items found by archaeologists at Northampton's...
Friday, 12 April 2013

Northampton Castle dig reveals Saxon past

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A "rare" Saxon brooch, a medieval harness, pottery and animal bones are among items found by archaeologists at Northampton's...
Sunday, 7 April 2013

Unmarked grave dug up in hunt for England's King Alfred the Great

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Archaeologists dug up an unmarked grave in a quiet English churchyard in search of remains of King Alfred the Great, a ninth century mo...
Saturday, 23 March 2013

Online Viking Course

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Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers University of Oxford  Online and Distance Learning 8 May to 21 July 2013 Ravagers, despoile...
Friday, 15 March 2013

Staffordshire hoard of treasures to be displayed in Birmingham gallery

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The Staffordshire hoard, the UK's largest collection of Anglo Saxon treasure, includes sword mounts and fragments of processional ...

Bronze Age settlement unearthed in SW England

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Wick Barrow beakers [Credit: Somerset County Council] Excavations at the Hinkley C site have revealed the remains of a 3,000-year-old...
Monday, 25 February 2013

Exhibition preview: Capital of the North, Yorkshire Museum, York

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© Gareth Buddo " From the fifth century, for 1,000 years, York was the northern city,” says Natalie McCaul, the curator of archae...

How a distaste for 'pagan food' first put the British off horsemeat

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The paper does not attempt to explain how the fashion for eating horsemeat re-emerged in other European countries, notably France   Phot...
Monday, 18 February 2013

Mick Aston Interview

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Mick Aston, formerly of television’s  Time Team , answers questions submitted by Oxbow Books and David Brown Book Company customers. Cand...

ARCHI The Archaeological Sites Index

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ARCHI, the online searchable archaeological database, has added a new feature that allows users to add sites to their world-wide datab...
Sunday, 17 February 2013

Archaeology Summer Courses at Oxford

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The Oxford Experience is offering a number of archaeology courses this summer. Each course lasts for one week and participants stay...
Saturday, 16 February 2013

EMAS Easter Study Tour to Yorkshire

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There are still a few places available on the Easter archaeological study tour to Yorkshire. The Study Tour is organized by EMAS, the ...
Friday, 8 February 2013

Remarkable new finds below York Minster

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found evidence of a previously-unknown settlement below York Minster, dating back more than 1,000 years. Exper...

York Minster finds shed light on post-Roman period

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The rare Anglo-Saxon coin found at the minster shows that the city had its own mint [Credit: Maev Kennedy/Guardian] The recent excavati...
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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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