The sixth-century burial of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl surprised archaeologists when they discovered a small third-century ...

The term Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern one. It refers to settlers from the German regions of Angeln and Saxony, who made their way over to Britain after the fall of the Roman Empire around AD ...

The Romans ruled much of the British Isles from A.D. 43 to 410. When the empire left Britain, the Germanic Anglo-Saxons ...

Dan traces the unusual history of ancient winter folk traditions in England.

Archaeologists have discovered a "unique" ancient Roman drinking vessel mysteriously embedded in an Anglo-Saxon burial from the early 6th century A.D. The burial is one of 49 that were interred ...

This broadly historical valence of ‘Anglo-Saxon’ started to develop only in the sixteenth century, but arose from an already long tradition of regarding the Conquest as a suppression of ancient ...

It considers what structures intruded on the natural landscape the Anglo-Saxons inhabited – roads and tracks, ancient barrows and Roman buildings, the villages and towns, churches, beacons, boundary ...

While digging through a cemetery in Scremby, England filled with 49 graves, archaeologists came across the 1,500-year-old ...

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Ancient woodland management techniques have been used to tackle climate change and increase biodiversity at an important ...