Thursday, 3 February 2022

Six-year-old Anglo-Saxon boy who lived in Cambridgeshire 1,400 years ago was infected with plague, meningitis and septic arthritis when he died.

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Analysis of the remains of a six-year-old Anglo-Saxon unearthed in Cambridgeshire revealed that the poor boy had plague , meningitis and sep...
Tuesday, 11 January 2022

Archaeologists stunned by lost Anglo-Saxon church unearthed along HS2 route

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The Norman Conquest of 1066 saw the invasion and occupation of England by an army of thousands of Normans, Bretons, Flemish and French troop...
Monday, 10 January 2022

Archeologists long believed that ancient graves were robbed all over Europe, but here’s why they’re wrong

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Grave from France where the individual was moved around before he fully decomposed. Éveha-Études et valorisations archéologiques/G Grange, A...

North European Funeral and Burial Rites in the Early Middle Ages

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Anglo-Saxons were often buried with everything they would need after death. In this case the dead woman’s family thought she would need her ...

England After Rome: Angles and Saxons

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Great Britain was more adversely affected by the fall of Rome than any other region, as invaders from Northern Europe took advantage of the ...
Monday, 20 December 2021

Plans for new home refused due to site potentially housing Anglo-Saxon remains

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The site of the proposed house sits between the A179 and the road leading to The Fens (Image: Google) Councillors have refused plans for a n...
Monday, 15 November 2021

Harald Hardrada: why there’s more to the last great Viking than his death in 1066

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King Harald Sigurdsson of Norway – remembered by the name Hardrada, meaning ‘hard ruler’ – was a complex, fierce and ultimately doomed antih...
Friday, 12 November 2021

The St Brice’s Day Massacre: what really happened?

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The 11th century in English history features its fair share of bloodshed in battles, but right at the start of the new millennium, there is ...

Metal detectorist unearths largest Anglo-Saxon treasure hoard ever discovered in England

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 A number of gold coins and objects from the Norfolk hoard (Image credit: British Museum)  A metal detectorist in West Norfolk, England, has...

First finished pieces of Sutton Hoo replica ship joined together

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The first two finished pieces of an 88ft-long replica of the Sutton Hoo longship have been joined together. Archaeologist Angela Care Evans,...
Wednesday, 29 September 2021

Viking Hygiene, Clothing, & Jewelry

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  Viking clothing was made of wool, linen, and animal hides, and for the wealthy, silk. Combs – which it seemed almost every Viking carrie...

‘Prickles down the neck’: project reveals unsung female heroes of Sutton Hoo dig

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  The trust believes the resulting images are among the earliest surviving colour photographs of any major archaeological dig. Photograph:...
Thursday, 5 August 2021

Anglo-Saxon Sword Pyramid Found in England

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(Norfolk County Council/Portable Antiquities Scheme) NORFOLK, ENGLAND—According to a  BBC News  report, a metal detectorist in the the Breck...
Saturday, 24 July 2021

Deposed Ninth-Century King May Have Called This Cave Dwelling Home

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Researchers previously thought the cave was an 18th-century folly, or decorative structure constructed to enhance the natural landscape. (Ma...
Wednesday, 21 July 2021

Exiled Medieval Anglo-Saxon King May Have Lived as Hermit in 9th-Century Cave Dwelling

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Anchor Church cave may have belonged to a 9th-century king turned saint. COURTESY ROYAL AGRICULATURAL UNIVERSITY Archaeologists have identif...
Wednesday, 12 May 2021

Cerne Abbas Giant may have been carved into hill over 1000 years ago

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The Cerne Abbas Giant National Trust Images/Mike Calnan/James Dobson A mysterious chalk carving of a huge, naked man on an English hillside ...

Cerne Abbas Giant: Why the Anglo-Saxons created England’s most macho hillside chalk figure

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The giant, carved in solid lines from the chalk bedrock, measures in at 55 metres high, and carries a huge knobbled club, which measures 37 ...
Sunday, 21 March 2021

Long read | The man at Sutton Hoo

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Note: This long read was written in 2015. Professor Campbell died in 2016 and his article is published posthumously with full permission and...
Sunday, 7 February 2021

The Dig: Archive shows real-life archaeologist from Netflix film

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Archive footage from a 1965 BBC documentary shows the real-life archaeologist who discovered Anglo-Saxon treasures at Sutton Hoo. Basil Brow...

The Dig: Pandemic delays Woodbridge Sutton Hoo replica ship build

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The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company wants to build a lifesize replica of the 1,400-year-old Anglo-Saxon ship  The Sutton Hoo Ship's Compan...