On the upper floor of the British Museum, in a gallery containing early medieval artifacts, most visitors will congregate around the swords, helmets, drinking horns and lyres. To a few, however, ...

A COLLECTION of Anglo-Saxon brooches are being ‘returned’ to Banbury from the British Museum. Curators at the museum have announced that a collection of jewellery found in Hornton village is being ...

The recently reopened Sir Paul and Lady Ruddock Gallery in room 41 of the British Museum covers Europe A.D. 300-1100, and includes many artifacts excavated at an Anglo-Saxon burial mound in Sutton Hoo ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Four gold pendants and one gold-and-garnet brooch dated to the seventh century were discovered in ...

A rare collection of Saxon artefacts has been found by a man from east Kent. The Anglo-Saxon findings could be part of a grave date back to the sixth century and are said to be worth more than £40,000 ...

Modifying coins into jewellery happened across the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods, but in the second half of the 11th Century it was particularly fashionable to mount silver pennies A gilded silver ...

A garnet and gold brooch that had been buried for almost 1,500 years is to go on display at the Oxfordshire Museum. The piece of jewellery dating from the 7th Century was found at West Hanney, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an "extraordinary" Anglo-Saxon burial site in Britain that dates back 1,600 years. Its 20 occupants are surrounded by ancient treasures such as amber beads, silver rings, ...