Anglo-Saxon children had to grow up very quickly ... They learned to chop down trees with an axe, plough a field, and use a spear in battle. They also fished and went hunting.

“It’s an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon cemetery, with really beautifully furnished graves, a lot of weapon burials where you find things like iron spear-points and seaxes, which are Anglo-Saxon ...

Anglo-Saxon jewellers made brooches ... Beowulf: More I hear that the monster dire in his wanton mood / reeks not weapons hence shall I scorn. Grendel doesn’t frighten me.

Other treasures found were spears, shields, and other swords ... The excavation also provided significant insights into the Anglo-Saxon funerary customs. Conservator Dana Goodburn-Brown discovered ...