The Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf describes a similar royal structure as a “timbered hall, splendid and ornamented with gold. The building in which a powerful man held court that was the foremost of ...

Beowulf's helmet in the poem is described as made of "beaten ... Much is still unknown about the Anglo-Saxons, who ruled England from the fifth to 11th centuries, primarily because in the ninth ...

A storyteller played music on a small harp or a lyre to accompany their stories and poems. Anglo-Saxon jewellers made brooches, beads and gold ornaments. At first, their artwork was pagan ...

THE Harwich Society’s winter programme of monthly talks will continue with a talk by the Sutton Hoo Ship's Company about the famous ...