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Reconstruction of a Anglo-Saxon sunken hut at Bede's World, nr Jarrow. These were typical of the Germanic timber-constructed buildings, also known as Grubenhäuser. Usually a rectangular pit up to 1m deep, 3x4m in dimension inside, with a posthole…

This article is taken from 'Medieval World' issue no. 1, July/August 1991, Invicta Press, pp. 10-14.

This publication no longer exisits.

This study pack was designed especially for anyone coming to the Anglo-Saxon language from an initial interest in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. It is a short and very informal introduction to Anglo-Saxon, but for many people their first…

This is the second part of the study pack created especially for anyone coming to Anglo-Saxon from an original interest in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Like Part 1, it has been available on the Tolkien Society website and in hard copy since it…

The anonymous poem on the Battle of Brunanburh appears under the year 937 in four manuscripts (A, B, C and D) of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It celebrates the victory of King Athelstan over the allied forces of the Irish Vikings and the King of Scots…

This is my own pencil drawing rendition of a huscarl in mid-battle at Stamford Bridge, 25th Sept, 1066.

I have afterwards tinted the picture slightly (using a computer editing program), for effect, but the rest is my own effort.

It's not…

This is a good example of a Sceat (Sceatta?). These prototype gold and silver coins preceded the more recognisable later flat silver pennies.

Found with a metal detector in a field near Ewelme in Oxfordshire, these are not common finds.

These are poems that take inspiration from the Old English Elegies, transferring them to twenty-first century contexts. They have been previously published in various UK poetry magazines.

This is a silver penny of Queen Cynethryth, wife of Offa. Such coins are very rare finds and even more rarely do they come in good condition. This coin would have been made by hammering a flan of silver between 2 metal dies.

This is a novel, a murder mystery set in Northumbria around the time of the arrival of Christianity. It's loosely based on the history of Escomb church in Durham. I wrote it a long time ago; I don't know about its quality, but it was the fruit of a…