But large mounds like those found at Sutton Hoo were almost certainly the final resting places for Anglo-Saxon nobility such as King Rædwald. The Sutton Hoo discovery shows that the "Dark Ages ...

The small lead bundle is barely bigger than a Cornish pasty and has been affectionately nicknamed "the pasty" by the ...

Below the king were the earls, the ruling nobility. The earl was the king's ‘right hand man’ in a shire. The position was not hereditary, but it became usual in the 10th century to choose ...