Ten years ago in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, metal detectorists stumbled upon pieces of silver and gold. Researchers ...

Photograph by British Museum/Scala, Florence The collection of 263 objects included weapons ... that the settlement was not Viking, as first assumed, but Anglo-Saxon. The significance of Sutton ...

The Vikings, like the Anglo-Saxons, fought on foot (not horseback ... Those who could not run fast enough were killed and their helmets, weapons and armour were stolen. The Vikings did not ...

A tiny Sutton Hoo-era gold and garnet mount for an Anglo-Saxon warrior's sword belt has been found ... The sagas retell stories from the Viking era, but were written hundreds of years after ...

dumps of weapons, even a magnificent silver dinner service—all from British, Roman, or Viking times—have been found in the soil. In the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf the warrior Sigemund has killed ...