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The Church of St Wystan is located at Repton in Derbyshire on elevated ground overlooking the floodplain of the River Trent. The site is of exceptional Anglo-Saxon interest, and a significant amount of the Anglo-Saxon fabric survives intact in the…

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Collection of broken pieces of Saxon iron, all too small and badly decayed to show what the original objects looked like although they probably included knives, spear heads and shield bosses. These are some of the Saxon objects found by…

A complete web site based around the material held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford - and the work of E. T Leeds. The site was created in 2005 by the Ashmolean (Sarah Glover), Pegasus Primary School, and St Mary and John Church of England School. It…

A collection of photographs of burial mounds, artefacts and reconstructions at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk.

Various images taken from Bede's World at Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, a museum on the site of an ancient Anglo-Saxon monastery whose most famous resident was the historian, scientist and poet Bede.

Various photographs of the St Laurence church at Bradford-on-Avon. Features tend to suggest a later date (10th/11th century) but it has been suggested that this was St Aldhelm's church of c. 700AD. It seems likely that some of the fabric survives…

The Bath Mint produced more issues of coins than any other mint in England during the reign of Aethelred II (978-1016AD). The popularity of the mint did not diminish during the Saxon period, with every Saxon king until Harold II making use of it…

An account of the Battle of Maldon, with a present-day English introduction, images from the site and extracts in Old English from the poem with present-day English translations.

The Church of St Andrew, Greensted-juxta-Ongar (Greensted Church) is a timber-framed church at Greensted, Essex, thought to be Europe's oldest wooden building.

The Battle of Edington is believed to have taken place near Trowbridge, Wiltshire in 878. Alfred of Wessex successfully repelled a group of Danes, led by Guthrum the Old. This is a series of images of the present-day site of the battlefield.