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Exceptionally well-preserved 1,500-year-old sword unearthed in Anglo-Saxon cemeteryexcavated from an “extraordinary Anglo-Saxon cemetery,” has been compared to the famed swords of Dover and Sutton Hoo. Exquisitely crafted and featuring runic script along its blade ...
Small decorative details on an iconic helmet belonging to “Britain’s Tutankhamen” could revise our understanding of early ...
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Knewz on MSNWell-Preserved Runic-Inscribed Sword Unearthed from a Cemetery, Sheds New Light on Funerary PracticesAn astonishing find of a sixth-century sword was unearthed by archaeologists from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in rural ... that ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNBritain’s Famous Sutton Hoo Helmet May Have Come From Denmark, Not Sweden, New Discovery SuggestsA small metal stamp discovered on a Danish island bears many similarities to the iconic seventh-century helmet ...
A statement released by the National Museum of Denmark suggests that the iconic Sutton Hoo helmet may have its origins in ...
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 ...
A blade of finely patterned iron and steel would ... It may have been a collection of Anglo-Saxon heirlooms buried at a later time. Today the vanished Mercian landscape is evoked by surviving ...
There have been spoon augers found in Britain from the Anglo-Saxon and Viking eras onwards ... which was invented with a twisted blade which removes the wood scrapings as it makes the hole.
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