These sports kept them fit for work and strong for war. Back to top Was Anglo-Saxon Britain in the 'dark ages'? Some people thought that after Rome, Britain went into a simple and gloomy ‘dark ...

Archaeologists have likely found King Harold’s lost residence in Bosham, shown in the Bayeux Tapestry, confirming its elite ...

But large mounds like those found at Sutton Hoo were almost certainly the final resting places for Anglo-Saxon nobility such as King Rædwald. The Sutton Hoo discovery shows that the "Dark Ages ...

Dating back to the eigth century, Offa's Dyke is a tangible sign of the emergence of a distinct Welsh identity. An earth structure, it was built by King Offa of Mercia, and at 270km long, it passed ...

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 ...

The Wiglaf Miniatures range of 18mm (1/100th) scale figures expands with some more fantastic sculpts from Mark Copplestone.

the Anglo-Saxon burial changed historians' view of the Dark Ages Aaron Sorkin's newest movie dramatizes the clash between protestors on the left and a federal government driven to making an ...