Science news articles about 'anglo saxon'

  • Huge Anglo-Saxon gold hoard found

    The UK's largest haul of Anglo-Saxon gold artefacts, from the 7th Century, is found with a metal detector in a field.
  • This treasure stirs the West Midlands' Anglo-Saxon soul | Tristram Hunt

    ... find in a generation remains where it should.The Staffordshire hoard, that stunning collection of 1,500 Anglo-Saxon gold and silver goods discovered near Lichfield, has ...
  • Anglo-Saxon gold trove valued at $5.5 million

    The largest haul of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, unearthed by a metal-detector enthusiast in ... at $5.5 million by a committee of experts. Anglo Saxon - Gold - Metal detector - England - ...
  • Leicester Burial Mound Shows Practices From Bronze Age, Iron Age And Medieval Times

    ... communities. Their excavations revealed a variety of burial practices from Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Anglo Saxon times. They offer the first definite example of an ...
  • Leicestershire Burial Mounds Reveal Ancestral Insights

    ... from Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Anglo Saxon times, showing how the three barrows were ... the dead. They offer the first definite example of an Anglo Saxon cemetery sited on an earlier monument to ...
  • Servants and masters -- the Chatterley trial

    ... 3s/6d meant the book would be available to anyone with a few bob to spare. With Lawrence's use of Anglo-Saxon expletives, the explicit portrayal of sex and, of course, the fact that Lady Chatterley ...
  • Effective global regulation

    Government ownership of banks – something unthinkable until very recently for the 'Anglo-Saxon' model of capitalism –- became a reality early in 2008. This was a policy response to an unprecedented ...
  • In praise of ... Vikings

    ... fiery dragons signalled their sacking of Lindisfarne in 793, states the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, while Alcuin of York thought such terror had never before been suffered in Britain. For the ...
  • Let's Put Vikings In Charge Of Immigration

    ... University conference. The conference, entitled "Between the Islands", was organized by the University's Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic and its Centre for Research in the Arts, Social ...
  • Obituary: Alan Vince

    Archaeologist who transformed the study of Anglo-Saxon and medieval ceramicsEschewing traditional art-historical approaches, Alan Vince, who has died of cancer aged 56, transformed the study of Saxon, ...
  • Binge drinking affects attention and working memory in young university students

    ... , Galicia, Spain and corresponding author for the study. "One of the reasons for this is because in Anglo-Saxon countries there is a longer tradition of drinking linked to weekend diversions and ...
  • The secrets of ancient Rome

    ... destroy anything built by man so that it vanishes without a trace. Days after the discovery was announced of a hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold that could have come straight out of Tolkien's Lord of the...
  • Fear of discrimination saw Paddys and Biddys decline

    ... from Ireland to Britain and North America attempted to make their names appear as white, Anglo-Saxon and protestant as possible to increase their social standing, reduce the possibility of racial ...
  • Staffordshire treasure hoard goes on show at British Museum

    Farmer on whose land 1,500 pieces of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver were found pays first visit to ... land near Lichfield more than 1,500 pieces of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver were found in July last year, ...
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss obituary

    ... British and American tradition.As a result, these French writers have seemed more stimulating to some Anglo-Saxon thinkers, working in intellectually more imaginative, but perhaps less rigorous, areas ...

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