The burials that could challenge historians’ ideas about Anglo-Saxon gender: Saxon burial mound in Taplow, England. mbarredo/Shutterstock There are a significant number of Anglo-Saxon burials where the estimated anatomical sex of the skeleton does not align with the gender implied by the items they were buried with. Some bodies identified as male have been buried …
Spectacular Anglo-Saxon burial uncovered – here’s what it tells us about women in seventh-century England: A village with the Old English name “Filthy Pool” wasn’t an auspicious location to discover one of the most spectacular burials of the Anglo Saxon period. Nevertheless, excavations by the Museum of London Archaeology at Harpole, Northamptonshire, in England’s Midlands, …
Ancient Syrian bitumen discovered in Anglo-Saxon boat at Sutton Hoo: Wikimedia Commons/Eebahgum, CC BY-SA Sutton Hoo in East Anglia is one of the most important archaeological sites in England. The weapons, clothing and other objects buried in the Anglo-Saxon cemeteries show that trade networks in the 6th and 7th century reached as far away as …