In the last post on everyday Anglo-Saxon bread, I talked about making bread on a bakestone or griddle on the fire. It is worth emphasizing again: for as much as eight hundred years, from the fifth …
Recipes offer a tangible glimpse of the past and bring history books alive, inspiring the imagination to go beyond the dry details of facts and lists of dates. Eating is both a necessity and a cult…
In search of the origins of the English village Just how much information has come from excavation undertaken in advance of development work? In a major survey of Anglo-Saxon settlement, John Blair has been discovering what riches lie in the archives. It is useless for Anglo-Saxonists to deny it: Roman villas and Norman castles have a hugely greater impact on most people’s imagination than anything built in England between AD 400 and 1050. Yet small-scale works of art from the period — the Sutton Hoo and Staffordshire treasures, the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Alfred Jewel — are probably better known
So, I've been a little silent lately. It wasn't on purpose, I've just been working on a lot of stuff lately, and it's sometimes hard for me to balance the things I like to do (this blog) and the things I've committed to doing (the things I'm going to be posting about this week). It's
The Anglo-Saxon period was one of turbulence, bloodshed and innovation. The 13 Anglo-Saxon kings of England saw the new, unified kingdom of England...
Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic decoration of shields can be evidenced, at least sporadically, from Roman to Viking times. While textual and pictorial information contributes to this knowledge, detailed archaeological analysis depends primarily on the survival of metal fittings.
A new book reveals how some remains of the Anglo-Saxon past are hiding in plain sight – such as St Paul's Church in Jarrow, pictured, which is situated on the edge of the Tyne Car Terminal.
Most of our evidence is drawn from the funerary record,and more specifically from the rite of horse inhumation,or the provision of horse equipment as a grave good. Insacrificing horses to accompany the dead the Anglo-Saxon elite were doubtless influenced by Continental burial theatre, where the rite is to be observed at itsmost explicit.
What can the glittering weapon fittings from the Staffordshire Hoard tell us about the Anglo-Saxon warrior elite? Lucia Marchini went along to the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery’s latest exhibition to find out. It is a story familiar to many, and a find that has often graced the pages of this magazine (see CA 236, 276, 290, 297). In July 2009, a metal-detectorist discovered what turned out to be the largest cache of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver yet found. It was in a Staffordshire field near Lichfield, ecclesiastical centre of the kingdom of Mercia. The hoard consists of around 4,000
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In discovering the Anglo-Saxon world, archaeologists have made a number of excavations that provided a fruitful insight into the treasuries of this
The Anglo-Saxon period witnessed the birth of the English people, the establishment of Christianity, and the development of...
In 946, the body of a woman was buried in a monastery and later relocated to Magdeburg Cathedral. It was essentially forgotten until 2008 when
Did ‘the Anglo-Saxon migrations’ take place, and were Romano-British leaders replaced by those of Germanic descent? Susan Oosthuizen’s new book, The Emergence of the English, is a call to rethink our interpretations of the 5th and 6th centuries AD, reflecting on whether many of the assumptions we make about the period are actually supported by evidence. Interpretations that cannot be upheld should be discarded, she says, and all viable alternative interpretations should be explored for the strongest arguments to be identified. Chris Catling reports.
A facsimile of the Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon burial mask, Suffolk, East Anglia England.
What made Alfred, the most famous and celebrated of all Anglo-Saxon kings, so great?
This period is traditionally known as the Dark Ages, mainly because written sources for the early years of Saxon invasion are scarce. It is a time of war, of the breaking up of Roman Britannia into several separate kingdoms, of religious conversion and, after the 790s, of continual battles against a new set of invaders: the Vikings.
Sutton Hoo archaeological site in Suffolk. What to expect when you visit the site and view where the Sutton Hoo treasure revealed in The Dig
Today we look at several Anglo-Saxon words relating to magic see if they can tell us anything about prechristian Germanic religion. All we know about Germanic religion comes either from Roman auth…
An Anglo-Saxon house in a reconstructed village is to be dismantled so archaeologists can learn more about historical construction methods.
The Anglo-Saxons were a Germanic people who came to England after the Romans left. This article looks at their history.
Who were the Anglo-Saxons and where did they come from. Why did the Anglo-Saxons invade Britain? Discover their origins and history here.
What did the Anglo-Saxons believe? Learn about Anglo-Saxon religion, their pagan gods and conversion to Christianity in this BBC Bitesize year 5/6 primary history guide.
Anglo-Saxons usually settled down to become farmers once they had conquered territory and usually divided it into small parcels of land, each person would get
In Cleopatra, a recent Netflix documentary, Cleopatra is depicted as a Black African ruler, which has led to a renewed debate about her racial identity. However, Cleopatra was not black, but rather of Macedonian Greek descent. To understand why Cleopatra was not black, we must look at her family
This edited article about the Anglo-Saxon diet originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 706 published on 26 July 1975. An Anglo-Saxon feast where the woman of the house would fill the cup of a guest or of a senior warrior returning from battle by Pat Nicolle Ask the average person what the Anglo-Saxons […]
Ivar Ragnarsson (known as ‘Ivar the Boneless’) was a Viking warlord of Danish origin. He ruled over an area...
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In early 2016 we opened our Anglo-Saxon longhouse, a large rectangular structure based on excavations found in the nearby village of Chalton, Hampshire. The house is primarily made of English oak, sweet chestnut and hazel, all sourced from local coppiced … Continue reading →
Studies by Archaeologists from the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) and Wessex Archaeology, suggests that the Anchor Church Caves in Derbyshire, England, was the home of a deposed Anglo-Saxon King. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
