An incredible Anglo-Saxon sword unearthed in a field in Kent ... Attached to the sixth century sword's hilt is a ring that is believed to symbolise an oath between its owner and a king or a ...

Archaeologists discovered a sixth-century sword in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the British ... and a pommel on the bottom of the hilt bearing a ring symbol that suggests the sword’s owner had ...

Anglo-Saxons! We’re strong and brave and true ... the hero’s grasp But Beowulf kept his arm! Joyful celebrations ring out in the cold night air Grendel the monster is dead and gone But ...

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of metal detectorist George Powell who stole a hoard of gold coins and jewellery ...

Related: Anglo-Saxon teen girl discovered buried with lavish jewelry strewn across her head and chest The Sutton Hoo site, which includes the ship burial and more than a dozen other graves ...

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man from Newport convicted of stealing £3m in Viking gold who failed to appear ...

February 2 marks the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. St Bede wrote of Christ as the Temple itself A sublime if slightly rubbed illumination stands at the start of the Gospels in the Codex ...

“It’s an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon cemetery, with really beautifully ... In particular, the ring attached to its hilt indicates an interesting origin. “It’s been suggested that swords ...

Darragh, an Irish name meaning “oak tree” or in some variations “wealthy,” is pronounced ‘Da-ra’, with emphasis on the first ...

George Powell was part of a duo who failed to declare they had unearthed invaluable coins and other jewellery on farmland in ...

Experts believed the coins were Anglo-Saxon and to have been hidden by a ... The hoard also included a 9th-century gold ring, a crystal rock pendant, a dragon's head bracelet and an ingot.