Sunday, 30 October 2022

Harald Hardrada: King of Norway

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Coming back to Norway meant that Harald Hardrada had two relatives to deal with – Sweyn and Magnus. It would make for an interesting path to...

The Value and Power of Books in Anglo-Saxon England

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The St Cuthbert Gospel of St John. (formerly known as the Stonyhurst Gospel) is the oldest intact European book Despite the ‘Dark Ages’ myth...
Saturday, 29 October 2022

Landscapes of the Norman Conquest

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An exciting new book “Landscapes of the Norman Conquest” by Trevor Rowley has now been published. For a long time, the Norman Conquest has b...
Monday, 24 October 2022

Metal detectorist’s find of lifetime as rare 700AD gold sword pommel uncovered

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The solid gold sword pommel was found near Blair Drummond and is valued at £30,000. An “exceptionally rare” solid-gold sword pommel discover...
Tuesday, 4 October 2022

Rendlesham: 1,400-year-old royal hall unearthed

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Volunteers working with Suffolk County Council fully excavated post holes on the east side of the hall A royal hall of "international i...
Thursday, 29 September 2022

DNA From Skeletons Reveals Large Migration to Early Medieval England

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Goods from a grave site at Issendorf cemetery in Lower-Saxony, Germany.  Landesmuseum Hannover A new study could close a long-standing debat...
Tuesday, 27 September 2022

How Vikings Influenced the Modern English Language

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Knowledgable linguist Rob Watts of RobWords explained how the Old Norse language of the Vikings had a profound effect upon the modern Englis...

Genome Study Offers Clues to Anglo-Saxon Migration

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(Landesmuseum Hannover) According to a statement released by the University of Huddersfield, a team of researchers from the Max Planck Insti...
Sunday, 18 September 2022

Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers (Online Course)

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The University of Oxford online course will run from Wednesday, 28 Sep 2022 to Friday 09 Dec 2022  You can find further details here...
Wednesday, 22 June 2022

The Worst Year Ever to Be Alive in History

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The worst year to be alive? Eyjafjallajokull, the Icelandic volcano that threw transatlantic travel into a tailspin several years ago after ...
Sunday, 19 June 2022

141 Anglo-Saxon graves discovered in England, alongside jewellery, weapons and earwax removers

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Image shows a toiletry kit and a tubular rimmed glass bowl excavated from Wendover, Buckinghamshire   -   Copyright  AP Photo Archaeologists...

Saxon pendant with Roman jewel found in Kingsey field

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The engraved semi-precious gem is known as an intaglio and shows a figure with a raised whip on small chariot with four horses A Roman jewel...
Friday, 1 April 2022

These Scots Still Fish Like the Vikings

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Legend has it that the beam is as long as a Viking's oar. ALL PHOTOS COURTESY JOHN WARWICK WHEN ON DRY LAND, EXPERT fisherman John Warwi...

Digging Up the Rich Viking History of Britain

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   A massive 1,100-year-old graveyard leads to a surprising new view of the Nordic legacy in Britain St. Wystan’s church in Repton. In 873-8...
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...