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The Middle Saxon cemetery in the Close of Exeter Cathedral consisted of a mix of burials: some simple inhumations, others ‘charcoal burials’. One of the latter type is shown here: the body of an adult has been laid on a bed of charcoal, which…

N.B. A new a greatly expanded version of this has been uploaded in January 2014. Please use the Gazetteer V.2, and the new zipped archive of all images (V. 2).

This is a guide to churches within a “day-trip” of Oxford which have been…

More than 40 examples of small earthenware crucibles such as this have been recovered from late Saxon and Norman deposits in various tenements at the centre of Exeter. They range in date from the 10th century to c. 1200. They show that metalworking…

The hedge on the horizon, a familiar feature on the road out from Countess Wear to the M5 interchange at Sandy Gate, is an unremarkable feature of modern Exeter. It is nevertheless very ancient, being part of the boundary of the estate of Topsham…

The Alfred Jewel, possibly the handle of an aestel, is held in the Ashmolean Museum. Its motto reads (in modern English) "Alfred ordered me to be made". Discovered in the 17th century, it is believed to have been made in the 9th, probably in Wessex.

Wing is a small village in Buckinghamshire on the Icknield Way. It's church - All Souls - though greatly added to over the centuries, retains several distinct Anglo-Saxon features notably a window at the East End of the nave, a doorway (now bricked…

All Saints Church at Little Somborne is an Anglo-Saxon and Norman church. Much of the two celled stone Saxon church survives in the nave and north-end of the church. The original Anglo-Saxon west end extended about six feet further, and this was…

The church of All Saints at Old Byland dates to the late Saxon period. Most of the present church was rebuilt during the Norman period, but the stonework in the exterior of the chancel suggests that once the roof was lower and this implies that…

Images of Anglo-Saxon elements of All Saints' Church, Brixworth, Northamptonshire. This church is mentioned in the Peterborough chronicle as having been founded by 675AD, although other elements of the building were added from the tenth to the…

Images of the surviving tenth-century Anglo-Saxon tower from All Saints' Church, East Barton.