Viking-age hoard found in Scotland a decade ago had indecipherable runes — until now
Ten years ago in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, metal detectorists stumbled upon pieces of silver and gold. Researchers ...
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A Royal Latrine Points Archaeologists To The Last Anglo-Saxon King’s Residence
Archaeologists pinpoint the site of King Harold’s elite residence, depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, using a surprising clue: ...
Medieval Mystery Solved: Lost Residence of England’s Last Anglo-Saxon King Uncovered
Archaeologists have likely found King Harold’s lost residence in Bosham, shown in the Bayeux Tapestry, confirming its elite ...
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Anglo-Saxons plagiarized a Roman coin — and it's full of typos
On both the real and Anglo-Saxon imitation solidi, the standard clearly displays a cross, and the figure holds ... or silver and be at least 300 years old, said coin expert Adrian Marsden, a ...
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Staffordshire Gold Hoard
This story appears in the November 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old Roman road that cut ...
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KS2 History: Anglo-Saxons travel around Britain
The early Anglo-Saxons came to Britain because it had a better climate, good land for farming and the old Roman trading routes ... to sail round Britain than to cross it by land.