Wednesday, 31 January 2024

Archaeology Classes on the Oxford Experience summer school 2024

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  Tom Quad, Christ Church, Oxford University – image David Beard The Oxford Experience summer school is held at Christ Church, Oxford.  Part...
Tuesday, 19 December 2023

Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?

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The Romans ruled Britain for nearly four centuries, from 43 CE until the beginning of the fifth century. Most commentators agree that the ac...

Sutton Hoo Saxon ship reconstruction aims for 2025 sailing

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The Sutton Hoo Saxon ship project, spearheaded by master shipwright Tim Kirk, is a remarkable effort to reconstruct the largest Saxon ship e...
Wednesday, 6 December 2023

Scandinavia's oldest known ship burial is located in mid-Norway

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This summer, archaeologists and a metal detectorist conducted a small survey of Herlaugshagen, at Leka in the northern part of Trøndelag Cou...
Wednesday, 29 November 2023

Possible 1,400-Year-Old Temple Excavated in Eastern England

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RENDLESHAM, ENGLAND—In the eighth century, an English monk and historian known as The Venerable Bede wrote of a king’s village at “Rendlaesh...
Wednesday, 22 November 2023

1,400-year-old temple discovered in England

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Sutton Hoo has been home to some of the most amazing discoveries from Early Medieval England. Now, archaeologists have uncovered the remains...
Monday, 9 October 2023

How the Great Heathen Army slaughtered all before them during the Dark Ages

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The Great Heathen Army, a coalition of Norse warriors, stormed the shores of England in the late 9th century, forever altering the trajector...

Anglo-Saxon Burials Are Challenging Our Understanding of Gender Identity

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A reconstruction of a helmet found in the Sutton Hoo burial. (British Museum, Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) There are a significant numbe...
Saturday, 7 October 2023

Rare medieval Cheddar brooch found in Somerset field to go on display

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A detail of the Cheddar brooch after conservation work. Photograph: Museum of Somerset When it emerged from the earth it was dull, corroded ...

The Cheddar Brooch will be on display in the Museum’s ‘Making Somerset’ gallery from Friday 20 October

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A very rare Early Medieval brooch, that lay hidden for many centuries, is going on display at the Museum of Somerset in Taunton. It comes fr...
Friday, 6 October 2023

Metal detectorist finds giant brooch that could have royal origins

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The high status Anglo-Saxon brooch found in a field near Cheddar, Somerset (South West Heritage Trust) Giant silver brooch found in the Some...
Monday, 26 June 2023

How to Make a Viking Warrior?

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"Making a Warrior: the Social Implications of Viking Age Martial Ideologies” is the title of a new research project, which was recently...
Saturday, 24 June 2023

Wild Cattle in Britain – Descendants of Viking Cattle?

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Also known as the Chillingham Cattle, Britain is home to four flocks of White Cattle living in the wild since the 12th century. The fierce a...
Tuesday, 20 June 2023

“Ipswich ware” pottery made for the first time in over 1,000 years

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“Ipswich ware” jars and pots, first made 1,400 years ago in the English town, are being fired again in a replica Anglo-Saxon kiln thanks to ...

Ipswich Anglo-Saxon pottery created in replica kiln in Tunstall, near Woodbridge

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Teams in Tunstall have been recreating 1,400 year-old Anglo-Saxon pottery, known as 'Ipswich-ware'. Picture: Suffolk County Council ...

Trumpington burial: Teenage Anglo-Saxon girl's face revealed

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Without DNA analysis, forensic artist Hew Morrison could not be sure of her precise eye and hair colour The face of a girl who died more tha...

First look at what the Anglo-Saxon teenager buried in Cambridge would have looked like

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The face of a 16-year-old woman buried near Cambridge in the seventh century (Image: Hew Morrison ©2023) The face of a teenager buried near ...
Tuesday, 2 May 2023

The Shadowy Kingdom Of Gewissae, Britain’s First Kings

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Gewissae was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that ruled much of southern Britain from the fifth to the seventh centuries as the island began forging ...

Beowulf was connected to King Cnut, study finds

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When King Cnut sailed to Denmark in 1019, did he bring a copy of Beowulf with him? That is the theory put forward in a new article on why th...

Stolen coins reveals King Alfred had help from ally to stop Vikings ruling England

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Alfred was the king of Wessex and then later king of the Anglo-Saxons, and his grandson Æthelstan was the first 'King of the English...