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- Anglo-Saxon and Viking Yorkshire - Interim report 1996 on excavations of an Anglian and Anglo-Scandinavian settlement at Cottam, directed by Dr Julian Richards for the Archaeology Department, York University.
www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/staff/sites/york_environs/menu.htm
- Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries - Cemeteries database drawn mainly from central and central southern England, compiled as part of a PhD thesis, is provided by Jeremy Huggett of Glasgow University.
www.gla.ac.uk/archaeology/resources/Anglo-Saxon/cemeteries
- Anglo-Saxon Coins - Simon Keynes provides images of coins from several reigns, covering early to late Saxon.
www.trin.cam.ac.uk/sdk13/ascoins.html
- Anglo-Saxon Derbyshire - Trent and Peak Archaeological Trust has created a site database searchable by using an image-map showing the distribution of sites or by a text-based index. Bibliography.
www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/~aczkdc/asd/database.html
- Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History - Annual journal concerned with the archaeology and history of England and its neighbours during the Anglo-Saxon period published by Oxford University Committee for Archaeology.
users.ox.ac.uk/~assah
- Archaeologists Take the Wraps off Lady Godiva - The Telegraph reports that archaeologists have reconstructed what could be a glass portrait of Lady Godiva.
portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/08/23/ngodi23.xml
- Excavation on Roundway Down, North Wiltshire - Sarah Semple and Howard Williams describe the search by Trinity College Carmarthen for a high-status female Anglo-Saxon barrow burial, with illustrations and bibliography.
www.trinity-cm.ac.uk/english/fac_env/sch_arch/roundway.htm
- Flixborough Anglo-Saxon Settlement, North Lincolnshire - An illustrated description from Hull City Council of the excavation by Humber Archaeology (1989-1991) of an exceptionally wealthy Anglo-Saxon site. Images of fine objects.
www.hullcc.gov.uk/archaeology/flixboro.htm
- Map of Anglo-Saxon England - Matthew White shows the kingdoms c.860 and major sites. From the Old English Pages.
www.georgetown.edu/cball/oe/oe-map.html
- Old Ruins, New World - Article by Tim Eaton in British Archaeology on the way in which abandoned Roman sites in Britain were plundered for stone by Anglo-Saxon church builders.
www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba60/feat2.shtml
- St Laurences Chapel at Bradford-on-Avon - Southampton University explains its work on one of the best-preserved early church buildings in England. History, architecture, excavation, interpretation and computer-based reconstructions.
www.arch.soton.ac.uk/Research/bradford
- St Peter's Church, Barton upon Humber - Results of the excavation of this Anglo-Saxon and later church, with the only extant Anglo-Saxon baptistery. Includes maps, phase plans, church memorials, history, bibliography and glossary.
www.stpetersbarton.org.uk
- Suffolk Site Throws up New Treasures - BBC News announces that an Anglo-Saxon cemetery has been uncovered during an archaeological dig at Sutton Hoo, where a wooden ship and treasure were discovered in 1939.
news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_802000/802819.stm
- Sutton Hoo, Suffolk - Online tour of the famed Anglo-Saxon royal cemetery, courtesy of The Sutton Hoo Society: interactive map brings up information of features of the site. Visitor information.
www.suttonhoo.org
- The Discovery of Anglo-Saxon Architecture - An illustrated article from the Ecclesiological Society about the work of Thomas Rickman - the first to recognise the Anglo-Saxon style of architecture - at Barton-on-Humber.
www.ecclsoc.org/barton.html
- Thomas Bateman's Ten Years' Diggings - Antiquarian Bateman uncovered many 7th-century barrow burials in the Peak District. Biography and extracts from his publications of 1848 and 1861.
www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/~aczkdc/tenyrs/bindex.html
- West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village - Illustrated guide from Bury St Edmunds and Beyond to the reconstructed village on a site excavated at West Stow.
www.stedmunds.co.uk/lifestyle/wstow/village.html
- Whitby Abbey Headland Project - English Heritage study of the 7th or 8th-century Southern Anglian enclosure. Location maps; history of the abbey; bibliography; illustrated excavation design and progress reports.
www.eng-h.gov.uk/projects/whitby/wahpsae
- Wichamstow Village - Roland Williamson presents a fictional village to illustrate the type of buildings the Anglo-Saxons created and the village life and crafts. Hosted by Regia Anglorum.
www.regia.org/village.htm
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