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 ...

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, offering a glimpse into early medieval life.  Read More ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...