Only 11 other brooches of this style have been found ... included the uncovering of a sixth century sword, found in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in rural Kent. The sword, which features a silver ...
Archaeologists recently unveiled remarkable treasure from an excavation at the Skumsnes farm in Fitjar last autumn, including priceless Viking jewelry and coins.
The famous, rambunctious feast scene in the Bayeux Tapestry, two years before King Harold was brutally killed at the Battle ...
The well-preserved weapon was recovered by University of Central Lancashire archaeologists from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery near ... buckles, brooches, and other artefacts (in women’s graves).
Archaeologists discovered a sixth-century sword in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the British ... impressive as the sword), and female graves had brooches, buckles, and knives. These graves are ...
Potters made pottery from clay. Jewellers made beautiful brooches, beads and ornaments from gold, gemstones and glass.The Anglo-Saxons had armies too. But their soldiers didn’t fight all the time.
Some Anglo-Saxons were skilled craftsmen who made decorative jewellery such as brooches and necklaces. Children in Anglo-Saxon England didn’t go to school. Instead, they learned skills from ...
This collection comprises approximately 1000 items from Anglo-Saxon England. Many of these were excavated in the late 18th century and include several exceptional objects, such as the Kingston Brooch, ...
Revellers with drinking horns surround the last Anglo-Saxon king, who was just two years ... including Anglo-Norman pottery, a silver brooch from the 11th century and a copper alloy from a stirrup ...
All of the men’s graves contained larger weapons, like spears and shields, while the women’s graves held knives, brooches ... “It’s an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon cemetery, with really ...