Near the end of Roman rule, Britain was being attacked by the Picts and Scots from the north, and the Anglo-Saxons from the sea. The Romans built forts to defend the coast and Hadrian's wall ...

Great! Well let’s start at the beginning. The Anglo-Saxon age in Britain was about 410 to 1066, and they originally came from Germany and Scandinavia. Some historians say they were driven from ...

King Charles III was crowned in Westminster Abbey, but this is not the only place where the ceremony has happened ...

Artists and historians are hoping plans for a museum and art trail will help to mark a Viking clash that took place in ...

Jan Hjort was using a metal detector to scan a field on the Danish island of Tåsinge when he discovered a small piece of metal covered in engravings. At first, Hjort didn’t think much of his find. But ...

The British Museum A sixth-century Anglo-Saxon brooch, unearthed at Oakington. Look closely and you’ll see engraved human and animal heads. Duncan Sayer But exactly how was the Roman Britain of ...

An unusual piece of Anglo-Saxon jewelry — a plagiarized pendant rife with typos — that was discovered by a metal detectorist has now been declared treasure in the U.K. The pendant imitates a ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...