Near the end of Roman rule, Britain was being attacked by the Picts and Scots from the north, and the Anglo-Saxons from the sea. The Romans built forts to defend the coast and Hadrian's wall ...

Archaeologists believe they found a residence of medieval ruler Harold Godwinson, England’s last Anglo-Saxon king. A nearby ...

So they tended to rot over time. Unfortunately, there are no original Anglo-Saxon settlements left in Britain today. Most Saxons lived on villages and farms like this because they provided ...

Newcastle University announced the discovery of Harold Godwinson's – aka King Harold II – residence in Bosham, a village on ...

For centuries, historians speculated about the final residence of England’s last Anglo-Saxon king. The famous Bayeux Tapestry ...

Archaeologists have likely found King Harold’s lost residence in Bosham, shown in the Bayeux Tapestry, confirming its elite ...

Although Harold is famous for being England’s last Anglo-Saxon king, he only reigned for just over nine months. His defeat and death at the Battle of Hastings was arguably the single most ...

Beneath medieval Bamburgh Castle on England’s northeast coast lie ... He had previously dug at a nearby early royal Anglo-Saxon settlement called Yeavering that he believed was a co-capital ...

of a kind never before recovered in Britain. Examining the artifacts, they concluded that the settlement was not Viking, as first assumed, but Anglo-Saxon. The significance of Sutton Hoo was ...

External view looking east. Credit: D. Gould et al. Recent archaeological findings have shed new light on a long-standing mystery about Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England. A ...

The Bayeux Tapestry culminates in William’s victory in the Battle of Hastings. However, earlier artwork from the time also ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that a house in Bosham, West Sussex, was once the residence of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England. The site appears in the famous Bayeux ...