Paul Mortimer, who has created replicas of weapons found at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk - where an Anglo-Saxon burial ship was discovered - said it probably attached a sword scabbard to a warrior's belt ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...

One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party ... In the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf the warrior Sigemund has killed a dragon guarding "dazzling spoils," and the aged ...

The famous helmet is among the Anglo-Saxon artifacts that indicate an ... for death by respect for payment," according to a seventh-century Byzantine historian. Foreign warriors recruited by ...

A tiny Sutton Hoo-era gold and garnet mount for an Anglo-Saxon warrior's sword belt has ... The late 6th to early 7th Century mount, or boss, was unearthed during an event organised by Digging ...

A new viewing tower at an Anglo-Saxon burial ... including a warrior's helmet, gold belt buckle, sword and shield, revolutionised historians' understanding of the 7th Century.

For decades, it was thought those interred at the Anglo-Saxon burial mounds of Sutton ... of East Anglia around this time in the early seventh century. He may have held power over neighbouring ...