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

The City of Leeds in the U.K. recently revealed a Saxon treasure: a gilded pendant from Northumbria's Christian past, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Saxon and medieval times, people policed their own community. Men were arranged into groups of ten called tithings. If a crime was committed in the tithing, it was everyone's responsibility to ...

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

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

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 ...

So too, they often rely on a narrative of the “Anglo-Saxons” as an English “race ... to be on guard against false narratives about the medieval period, to make sure that history is ...