Anglo-Saxons was the name given to this group of ... Adults enjoyed sports such as hunting, running, horse racing and playing musical instruments. Evidence of these activities has been found ...

In the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf the warrior Sigemund has ... the single-edged seax was more versatile than a full sword, serving as a hunting knife as well as a dagger. A blade of finely patterned ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...

where the discovery of the ship burial in the late 1930s changed the way historians understand Anglo-Saxon life. Made from a thin sheet of copper alloy, the bucket depicts a North African hunting ...

Anglo-Saxon children had to grow up very quickly ... They also fished and went hunting. Girls worked in the home. They were in charge of housekeeping, weaving cloth, cooking meals, making cheese ...

This was introduced by the Normans after the end of the Anglo-Saxon period when they designated large areas of England as ...