Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved elite sword from a newly discovered Anglo-Saxon cemetery near ... Unearthing a 6th-century sword from a grave The sword, dating back ...

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 ...

One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party ... origin of the tribal kingships of early Anglo-Saxon England. The first Mercians are thought to have been Angles ...