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"A great quantity of finds and information from the Anglo-Saxon and Viking eras has come out of the district around Pocklington in recent years, and we are looking forward to making the Pocela ...
And then everything changed—decidedly for the worse if you were an Anglo-Saxon. In 865 the Great Heathen Army—translated from micel haephen here in Old English—landed in East Anglia ...
The Sutton Hoo helmet was unearthed by archaeologist Basil Brown in Suffolk in 1939 as part of a wealthy Anglo-Saxon ship burial. Experts believe it belonged to King Raedwald of East Anglia ...
While this section of the museum is yet to reopen, the Birmingham Museum also holds the Staffordshire Hoard, the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold ... the flying Ford Anglia from Harry ...
The buried treasures found in the Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo mounds of East Anglia.
The arrival of a Danish “great army” in East Anglia in 865 AD marked the start of a new phase ... Alfred’s victory at the Battle of Edington in May, 878 AD saved Anglo-Saxon independence. But the ...
Four years afterwards the Vikings returned to East Anglia, and this time, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which was composed within living memory of the event, Edmund marched out to fight them ...
A metal detectorist who tried to sell rare Anglo-Saxon coins for a Saxon hoard has been ordered to pay back the £103,000 Credit: CPS It comes two years after Craig Best, then 46, and Roger ...
A metal detectorist who was jailed after hatching an illegal plot to sell Anglo-Saxon coins of great historical significance has been ordered to repay £103,000. Roger Pilling, 77, from Loveclough ...
A metal detectorist who attempted to sell rare Anglo-Saxon coins has been ordered to pay back £103,000 from the proceeds of his crimes. Roger Pilling, 77, was convicted of trying to sell the ...