Anglo saxon

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Mead hall

Welsh armor with intricate detailing

Viking helmets, no horns

The earliest recorded runes were used by the early Germanic tribes of central Europe and are believed to date back 1,700 years ago, though many think they date back much earlier. There are many arguments surrounding the origin of the runes some saying that they originated from Turkish alphabets whereas others Latin and Greek. The

Anglo-Saxon map of the Heptarchia period. Hand painted and researched map of medieval England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. In this age of political...

Learn about and revise what Anglo-Saxon society was like before 1066 with this BBC Bitesize GCSE History (OCR B) study guide.

The Anglo-Saxon period has often been dismissed as 'lost centuries' or the Dark Ages, but archaeological evidence and later written sources reveal a complex and…

Sutton Hoo King

Martin Wall, author of The Anglo-Saxons in 100 Facts, reveals why everything we thought we knew about the "Dark Ages" is wrong