Saturday, 18 January 2014

King Alfred the Great bones believed to be in box found in museum

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The first remains of King Alfred the Great may have been found at last after tests on a pelvic bone unearthed in Winchester revealed it...
Thursday, 16 January 2014

RARE GAMING PIECE FOUND AT ANGLO-SAXON ROYAL HALL

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U niversity of Reading archaeologists have discovered an ancient and extremely rare Anglo-Saxon board gaming piece while excavating a roy...

Treasure hunters found nearly 1,000 items in 2012

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It is thought these coins, minted in the name of Edmund, King of East Anglia, were buried when Vikings attacked Britain in 865# Amate...
Friday, 10 January 2014

Karl der Große: Macht, Kunst, Schätze

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Karl der Große: Macht, Kunst, Schätze - three major exhibitions which will run in Aachen from 20 June to 21 September 2014 to mark the 1...

Sweyn Forkbeard: England's forgotten Viking king

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Sweyn Forkbeard (shown left), England's shortest reigning king, remains in the shadows of both his son Canute the Great, and father H...
Sunday, 22 December 2013

Vikings Online Course

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Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers   22 January to 5 April 2014 Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers  is an online archaeo...
Thursday, 19 December 2013

New evidence for Battle of Hastings site considered

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The Bayeux Tapestry depicts the Battle of Hastings and the death of King Harold New evidence that questions the traditional site of Ki...

1066 and all that

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The traditional location for the Battle of Hastings - the site of Battle Abbey - has been called into question. New research by the ...

Battle of Hastings 'fought at site of mini roundabout'

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Channel 4's Time Team believe they have identified the site of the Battle of Hastings and death of King Harold - now occupied by a min...
Thursday, 5 December 2013

Building is underway at The new Wessex Gallery of Archaeology, The Salisbury Museum

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Anglo-Saxon satchel mount c.700 AD. Gold and Silver foils with repoussé decoration.  Found with the burial of an Anglo-Saxon ‘princess’...
Tuesday, 26 November 2013

Ancient board game piece unearthed at Lyminge dig

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A 7th century board game piece, the first discovery of its kind for 130 years, has been unearthed in Kent by University of Reading archaeol...

Gambling of high-living Anglo-Saxons revealed by archaeological find

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The Anglo-Saxon gaming piece found in the Kent village of Lyminge. Photograph: Design and Print Studio/University of Reading It woul...
Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Peterborough solar farm: Archaeologists unearth Roman finds

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Roman pottery, evidence of a Roman settlement and "possibly Saxon" artefacts have been found at a proposed solar farm site nea...
Sunday, 29 September 2013

Mildenhall Museum ready for Anglo-Saxon warrior & horse

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The warrior and his horse are being displayed as they were found in the grave at RAF Lakenheath A Suffolk museum has taken delivery of...

Archaeologists unearth section of an Anglo Saxon cross in Weardale

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Paul Frodsham, of the AONB Partnership, shows off the section of an Anglo Saxon cross unearthed during a dig in Frosterley ARCHAELOGIS...
Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Norfolk dig uncovers Anglo-Saxon oven

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The oven could be used for at least three tasks - to bake bread, malt barley and dry out grain A structure uncovered by archaeologists...
Monday, 9 September 2013

Saxon remains to be reburied after dig

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Saxon remains found during an archaeological dig at an abbey in Warwickshire are being reburied at a church service later. Radiocarbon d...

Saxon graveyard unearthed in Suffolk

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A team of archaeologists has returned to a Suffolk river bank to complete a dig at an early Christian burial site. The team has returned...
Friday, 16 August 2013

Oxford Experience 2014

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The programme for the Oxford Experience Summer School is now online.  Registration will not begin until late September, but now is the ti...
Saturday, 27 July 2013

Traces of 'lost village' found in Nottinghamshire

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Experts say the presence of Medieval pottery suggests the presence a community that possibly dates from before the Norman conquest Rem...