Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved elite sword from a newly discovered Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Canterbury. This rare find provides valuable insights into early Medieval ...

The sword was among a collection unearthed from ... The excavation was part of a larger project studying 300 early Anglo-Saxon graves from the entire eastern coast of Britain.

But the early Anglo-Saxons were not Christians ... This is the handle of an 8th century sword. When Anglo-Saxons died, their bodies were often cremated or buried in a grave along with some ...

In the early fifth century the restless tribes ... In a practice in northern Europe dating from the Bronze Age through Anglo-Saxon times, swords and other objects, many conspicuously valuable ...