The British Museum A sixth-century Anglo-Saxon brooch, unearthed at Oakington. Look closely and you’ll see engraved human and animal heads. Duncan Sayer But exactly how was the Roman Britain of ...

The Anglo-Saxons' imitation "demonstrates a desire ... and dates to the late fifth to early sixth century. The piece of jewelry copies the imagery and inscriptions found on coins from the time ...

A previously untouched Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Kent yielded the sixth-century sword, among several other fascinating findings. Twelve burials have been excavated at the site so far, and ...

In the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf the warrior Sigemund ... who helped bring Christianity to Scotland in the late sixth century. From there monks spread the faith to England. Warfare formed England.

While the magnificent burials, which date from the sixth and seventh ... around the fifth century. The East Angles were among the largest and most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon tribes, ruling ...

A large and important Anglo ... Saxon cemeteries such as Butler's Field where many of the people were buried with objects or 'grave goods'. The richest burial from Butler's Field is that of a 6th ...

In Anglo-Saxon times there were few schools in England and only a handful of people went to them. Schools were established in the 6th or 7th century. They were attached to churches and monasteries ...

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 ...