So they tended to rot over time. Unfortunately, there are no original Anglo-Saxon settlements left in Britain today. Most Saxons lived on villages and farms like this because they provided ...

This animation can help students find out how these farmers lived and what they may have done if students had grown up in an Anglo-Saxon settlement. What did they make? What words and place names ...

The famous helmet from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo in England may be evidence that Anglo-Saxon warriors fought as mercenaries for the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century, a new study finds.

Evidence from these studies, though relatively scant, established that it had been an Anglo-Saxon settlement, but not necessarily with a royal connection. Then, in 2008, a Rendlesham landowner ...

Here are some of the Old English names for places around Oxfordshire: The name “Oxford” comes from the Old English Oxenaforda, meaning “ford of the oxen”. This refers to a shallow crossing in the ...