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[Download this web page to bring in all pictures]. Saint Patrick's Chapel, Heysham, near Morecambe, Lancashire, with the nearby St Peter's parish church, is an early Saxon monument dating from the 8th CCE. While the church is still in use the chapel…

Photographed on a cold, sunny March 7th, 2011

A poem inspired by Old English literature.

Text accompanying the exhibition pieces in the Anglo-Saxon Galleries at Corinium Museum.

Contents:
WHO WERE THE SAXONS?
SAXONS IN THE COTSWOLDS
BUTLER’S FIELD : ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY
BUTLER’S FIELD : EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE
“MRS.…

Virtual archaeology web site from Durham and Northumberland entitled 'Past Perfect'. This is available online at: http://www.pastperfect.org.uk/index.html. These files are the home pages and the files related to Yeavering. Past Perfect is a joint…

Anglo-Saxon sceat, c. 710-760AD. East-Anglian R1.
Runes read EPA, probably the name of the moneyer.

CANCM:1982.14.23 - Circular gold pendant inlaid with cloisonné garnets
decorated with filigree wires, surmounted with
barrel shaped suspension
loop.
Found Cranmer…

CANCM:7523 - Bird brooch, silver gilt, garnet inset in eye and tail;
niello inlay. (Accessions register states: "Objects
from this grave
disturbed before excavation…

CANCM:7520 - Spindle whorl of black pottery. (Accessions register states:
"n.b. a small ring-shaped piece of badly corroded
bronze lay at a distance
of 9" away from…

CANCM:7494 - Square-headed silver-gilt brooch; undivided foot, motif decorating footplate; rampant animals either side of the foot reaching up to
the bow; (Accessions register states: "Almost exact
parallel from Howletts - see P.S.A. 2nd series XXX…