Image caption, The weregild payable for the murder of an Anglo-Saxon thane (noble) was 6,000 pennies. The weregild for a king was 90,000! The Saxons had a system called 'weregild', which meant ...

The lead archaeologist at the grave site told Newsweek that the sword was an "elite object that marked its owner out as special." ...

Archaeologists discovered a sixth-century sword in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the British ... the sword’s owner had some allegiance to a noble. The sword, while exciting, was not the only ...

Long before modern England came to be, Brixworth’s All Saints’ Church stood as an important landmark in the heart of Britain’s Anglo-Saxon territory. Ever heard of Brixworth, England?

Archaeologists discovered a sixth-century sword in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the British county of Kent ... ring symbol that suggests the sword’s owner had some allegiance to a noble. The sword, ...