A "very unusual" gold pendant made by an early Anglo-Saxon in imitation of a Roman coin has been discovered by a detectorist. The replica is a copy of a solidus coin showing the emperor Honorius ...

Re Jennifer Williams’ interesting piece “Rural England considers redrawing the map” (Outlook, February 20), earlier this month I attended the Wessex Regionalist party’s Spring meeting in ...

dates back to Anglo-Saxon times, circa 775 AD, making it over 1,200 years old. Athelstan, the first King of England, adopted the Pound Sterling as the first national currency. The pound got its ...

Coins, silver objects cut up for scrap metal ... or Viking times—have been found in the soil. In the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf the warrior Sigemund has killed a dragon guarding "dazzling spoils ...