Archaeologists recently uncovered the purpose of a 1,500-year-old bucket at Sutton Hoo, revealing that it was used as a ...

The early Anglo-Saxon period is a time whose events are often shrouded in fantasy. This fantastical view can be traced to later, Christian writers who described the pagan world of the fifth and ...

The Anglo-Saxon burial site in Suffolk offered a real treasure trove of finds when discovered just before the Second World ...

Centuries before the Anglo-Saxons converted to Christianity, 25 December — at that time the date of the winter solstice in the Julian calendar — had been chosen as the day on which to commemorate the ...

Some historians believe Easter eggs came from Anglo-Saxon festivals in the spring to celebrate pagan goddess Eostre. The goddess, who may be the namesake of Easter, represented the dawn in spring ...

Britain’s most spectacular Anglo-Saxon treasures may well have been captured ... perhaps during royal or other ceremonial events, by the first or second generation of clergy involved in the ...

Vaults of enriched uranium and plutonium to make nuclear bombs are dotted about a secure site in Berkshire along with Anglo-Saxon burial mounds and a couple of lakes.

"The Norman Conquest replaced England's Anglo-Saxon elite with a new ruling class ... chronicles the Norman Conquest of England, including events leading up to and following Harold Godwinson's ...