Here’s how it works. Despite their high status, Anglo-Saxon royalty didn't regularly feast on copious amounts of meat and fish. Rather, these medieval rulers dined primarily on vegetables ...

An ‘extremely rare’ board game piece from the seventh century has been unearthed that casts raucous Anglo Saxon feasts in a new light. The draughts piece was discovered in the foundations of a ...

ANCIENT Brit kings ate a diet of green veg rather than gorging on meat feasts, experts reckon. Anglo-Saxon rulers such as Alfred the Great were the original flexitarians, they say. Despite ...

The surprising discovery of an Anglo-Saxon feasting ... of any important early Saxon settlement. In Old English poetry the hall is often the scene of royal feasts and banquets.

is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. “Lent – the 40 days leading up to Easter – was traditionally a time of fasting and on Shrove Tuesday, Anglo-Saxon ...

A team of scientists launched a hunt for the Anglo-Saxon house 15 years ago ... thought to be leftover from royal feasts, were discovered beneath the grass at the Market Inn in Faversham.

If you're curious about the word shrove it derives from the Anglo-Saxon language and means a person has confessed their sins. The day is used as a traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash ...

Anglo-Saxons were not all equal. Click on the people at this feast below to find out about the different classes in Anglo-Saxon society.

He thought the gold band, inlaid with triangular garnets and studded with tiny beads of gold, was an Anglo-Saxon ring. But as fellow detectorist Chris Phillips searched nearby, he hit on something ...

If you're curious about the word shrove it derives from the Anglo-Saxon language and means a person has confessed their sins. The day is used as a traditional feast day before the start of Lent ...