The Prittlewell royal Anglo-Saxon burial or Prittlewell princely burial is a high-status Anglo-Saxon burial mound which was excavated at Prittlewell, north... 19 KB (1,982 words) - 03:17, 24 November 2023 |
Sutton Hoo (category Anglo-Saxon art) Sutton Hoo is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th centuries near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. Archaeologists have been... 93 KB (11,496 words) - 13:51, 12 May 2024 |
Taplow Barrow (category Anglo-Saxon sites in England) showed that this was a pair of bird-headed plaques from an Anglo-Saxon lyre comparable to the lyre found at Sutton Hoo. Several bone draughtsmen. These were... 24 KB (3,087 words) - 18:39, 17 May 2023 |
Kithara (category Lyres) of the lyre, which was regarded as a rustic, or folk instrument, appropriate for teaching music to beginners. As opposed to the simpler lyre, the cithara... 14 KB (1,479 words) - 17:41, 26 March 2024 |
Anglo-Saxon cemeteries have been found in England, Wales and Scotland. The burial sites date primarily from the fifth century to the seventh century AD... 28 KB (1,354 words) - 22:16, 31 March 2024 |
Sutton Hoo helmet (category Anglo-Saxon art) The Sutton Hoo helmet is a decorated Anglo-Saxon helmet found during a 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial. It was buried around the years c... 294 KB (30,446 words) - 02:13, 30 April 2024 |
Basil Brown (category Anglo-Saxon burial practices) and astronomer. Self-taught, he discovered and excavated a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in 1939, which has come to be called "one of... 36 KB (4,220 words) - 11:35, 25 March 2024 |
Thrymsa (category Anglo-Saxon money) thrymsa (Old English: þrymsa) was a gold coin minted in seventh-century Anglo-Saxon England. It originated as a copy of Merovingian tremisses and earlier... 6 KB (636 words) - 16:21, 20 February 2024 |
William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford (category Anglo-Normans) campaign of Anglo-Saxon resistance in the West Midlands, with the assistance of a number of Welsh princes (who had lately been allies of the Anglo-Saxon kings)... 10 KB (1,323 words) - 21:31, 12 January 2024 |
Sutton Hoo purse-lid (category Anglo-Saxon art) Sutton Hoo purse-lid is one of the major objects excavated from the Anglo-Saxon royal burial-ground at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England. The site contains... 9 KB (1,112 words) - 16:12, 10 March 2024 |
Malmesbury Abbey (category Anglo-Saxon monastic houses) porch) which holds some examples of books from the abbey library. The Anglo-Saxon charters of Malmesbury, though extended by forgeries and improvements... 23 KB (1,970 words) - 20:11, 2 December 2023 |
his lyre (which has also been described as a harp) with him, in order to play it when they rested from work. According to legend, he hung the lyre on the... 3 KB (269 words) - 02:05, 14 March 2024 |
A, s.a. 855" means the entry for the year 855 in manuscript A of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. sub cruce lumen The Light Under the Cross Motto of the University... 2 KB (3,600 words) - 06:47, 7 April 2024 |
Normans (section Anglo-Norman conquest of Cyprus) into the Anglo-Saxon language of their subjects (see Old English) and influenced it, helping (along with the Norse language of the earlier Anglo-Norse settlers... 74 KB (8,552 words) - 21:46, 1 May 2024 |
and Felixstowe is one of the largest container ports in Europe. The Anglo-Saxon settlement of Suffolk, and East Anglia generally, occurred on a large... 70 KB (6,272 words) - 07:51, 8 May 2024 |
Insular art or the Hiberno-Saxon style, from the 6th to 9th centuries. The fusion of pre-Christian Celtic and Anglo-Saxon metalworking styles, applied... 52 KB (6,845 words) - 18:29, 18 April 2024 |
List of mythological objects (section Swords from Anglo-Saxon mythology and folklore of the British Islands) mythology) Armor of Beowulf, a mail shirt made by Wayland the Smith. (Anglo-Saxon mythology) Armor of Örvar-Oddr, an impenetrable "silken mailcoat". (Norse... 189 KB (25,783 words) - 00:14, 13 May 2024 |