The Welsh remained genetically isolated from the rest of Britain, and researchers found no trace of Anglo-Saxon heritage in their DNA. The study also reveals that after Roman rule, invading Anglo ...

A newly translated runic inscription has shed “compelling” new light on who might have owned the Galloway Hoard, experts have announced. The Viking Age hoard, which contains more than 5kg of gold, ...

Revellers with drinking horns surround the last Anglo-Saxon king, who was just two years away from a painful death following an arrow to the eye. Now the famous, rambunctious feast scene in the ...

A storyteller played music on a small harp or a lyre to accompany their stories and poems. Anglo-Saxon jewellers made brooches, beads and gold ornaments. At first, their artwork was pagan ...

An astonishing find of a sixth-century sword was unearthed by archaeologists from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in rural ... was a rare find from a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Kent.

A COMPLEX piece of seventh-century jewellery at risk of leaving the UK could be returned to the East Yorkshire town near where it was found. An export bar has been placed on a rare Anglo-Saxon ...