The most striking discovery, however, is the remains of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery,” according to Wessex Archaeology. “The burials in the cemetery deliberately focus on an earlier Bronze Age ring ...

"Although many Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known in Lincolnshire ... the principal osteoarchaeologist with Wessex Archaeology — the organization excavating the cemetery — said in a statement.

The new conception of royal justice was aggressive. The Anglo-Saxons had brutal corporal and capital punishments at their disposal, including 'the ordeal' and grisly mutilations. And they also ...

In any case, the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were unified in the ninth century under Alfred the Great, a king of Wessex; they eventually gave England its name, which means "land of the Angles." ...

802-839 A.D.). Under King Eghbert, Wessex defeated the Mercians at the battle of Ellendon in 825 A.D., after which the major kingdoms acknowledged his supremacy. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ...

During his reign from 924 to 939, Athelstan united the Anglo-Saxons, defeated the Vikings ... as a place that represented the borders of Wessex and Mercia. It’s one of the very few places ...

The “Pearl of Scotland” was not Scottish but was from Wessex in England and was a member of the Anglo-Saxon royal family. Born in 1045 A.D., in a very troubled time, she brought her religious ...

Despite this, he secured his position as king of the Anglo-Saxons in 925 ... was named king of the West Saxons (Wessex). But ...

And the Anglo-Saxon state produced lots of law - legal texts are among its most distinctive and most characteristic productions. Of course, to govern a medium-sized state (in early medieval terms ...