These documents are collectively called the Chronicles. Most Anglo-Saxons were farmers and lived off the land. They were able to make equipment such as ploughs and tools to help them in their work.

At this time, the Jutes and the Frisians from Denmark were also settling in the British Isles, but the Anglo-Saxon settlers were effectively their own masters in a new land and they did little to ...

As the oldest daughter of Alfred the Great, it could be said that Aethelflaed was born into greatness. Contemporary ...

Archaeologists pinpoint the site of King Harold’s elite residence, depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, using a surprising clue: ...

Harold Godwinson was the “last Anglo-Saxon King of England,” the university said, and the exact location of the royal home ...

Revellers with drinking horns surround the last Anglo-Saxon king, who was just two years ... of two timber buildings on King Harold's family land. One was likely to be the banqueting hall, with ...

A team of archeologists in the United Kingdom believe that they have found the lost residence of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England. The home is shown in the 1,000 year-old ...

Having initiated the dig on her land in 1938, she took a close interest ... as first assumed, but Anglo-Saxon. The significance of Sutton Hoo was instantly recognized. The largest Anglo-Saxon ...

Archaeologists discovered a sixth-century sword in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the British county of Kent. The immaculately preserved sword was one of a handful of artifacts found at a site that ...

Archaeologists have discovered 321 silver coins still wrapped in a cloth and lead pouch from a time in English history marked by upheaval due to the coronation of a new Anglo-Saxon king.