Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved elite sword from a newly discovered Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Canterbury. This rare find provides valuable insights into early Medieval ...

Anglo-Saxon jewellers made brooches ... Beowulf: More I hear that the monster dire in his wanton mood / reeks not weapons hence shall I scorn. Grendel doesn’t frighten me.

Archaeologists discovered a sixth-century sword in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the British ... as still being in the “top echelons of swords,” you know that’s a pretty good sword.

weapons and equipment. Elaborately decorated horse equipment, depictions of horses on other artifacts and even the skeletons of horses, have also been found in the graves of early Anglo-Saxon ...

Paul Mortimer, who has created replicas of weapons found at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk - where an Anglo-Saxon burial ship was discovered - said it probably attached a sword scabbard to a warrior's belt ...

The largest Anglo-Saxon ship burial ever discovered contained ... be interred with objects from the world of the living, such as weapons, money, drinking horns, and musical instruments.

“Swords like this are very special,” Duncan ... “It’s an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon cemetery, with really beautifully furnished graves, a lot of weapon burials where you find things like ...

The well-preserved weapon was recovered by University of Central Lancashire archaeologists from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery near ... and other swords (primarily in men’s graves), and knives, buckles ...