A metal detectorist surveying a field in Leeds, England recently happened upon a medieval Saxon pendant covered in gold leaf.

The former Saxon owner of the pendant would be sad to hear that one arm of the cross has broken in the centuries since it was ...

The City of Leeds in the U.K. recently revealed a Saxon treasure: a gilded pendant from Northumbria’s Christian past, offering a glimpse into early medieval life.  Read More ...

A rare cross-shaped pendant, believed to be more than 1,200 years old, has been discovered in Northern England.

an Anglo-Saxon en-suite confirmed to us that this house sits on the site of an elite residence pre-dating the Norman Conquest,” Duncan Wright, a study co-author and a medieval archeologist at ...

In early medieval Europe, people were rarely buried ... already started to die out by the time Sutton Hoo’s unnamed Anglo-Saxon elite breathed his last. Between the sixth and eighth centuries ...

Modern references to “Anglo-Saxon political traditions” would benefit from readings of actual Old English charters—early medieval documents predominantly preoccupied with land grants ...

The medieval solid silver cross, which has been gilded with a thin layer of gold leaf, was discovered in a field in 2024 and ...

The castle retains a striking, medieval, onion-domed tower but is otherwise a substantial late-17th country house, once home for widows of Saxon monarchs such as Christiana of Saxe-Merseburg (1634 ...