He thought the gold band, inlaid with triangular garnets and studded with tiny beads of gold, was an Anglo-Saxon ring. But as fellow detectorist Chris Phillips searched nearby, he hit on something ...

The artefacts have been dated to the Anglo-Saxon era of 7th century AD, Paul Gould, one of the two detectorists who found them in January said. It’s not clear what the raven head represented but ...

A decorated Anglo-Saxon metal helmet with a faceplate Where it is from: Woodbridge, Suffolk, England When it was made: Circa A.D. 600 to 625 Related: Roman scutum: An 1,800-year-old shield dropped ...

Archaeologists discovered a sixth-century sword in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the British ... share of artifacts—male graves had weapons and shields (though none as impressive as the sword ...

The Vikings, like the Anglo-Saxons, fought on foot (not horseback) and in battle formed a ‘shield-wall’ where they locked together side-by-side, shields in front, and pushed their enemy back ...