Among the pieces are two combs made of bone or deer antler, one of which has a geometric decoration that evokes parallels ...

Malcolm Weale, a detectorist who found the item displays an early medieval silver penny of Guthrum of East Anglia, the first ...

When Malcolm Weale saw the tiny, dirt-covered object he’d unearthed in an English field, he knew it was something special.

One phrase translated to “this is the community’s property,” leading experts to believe the treasure may have belonged to a religious group. The 2014 discovery of over 11 pounds of largely silver ...

Indeed, the raiding and trading Vikings left their traces across Northern Europe and beyond, and the Scandinavian emigration of the ninth and tenth centuries left noticeable imprints on adjacent ...

Against the odds, the Settle-Carlisle line is celebrating its 150th birthday this year, and should be on the wish-list of ...

These Columban monasteries played a leading role in the expansion of Christianity; they converted the Picts and restored Christianity to Anglo-Saxon Northumbria ... as opposed to Doire Calgach. This ...

He said: “To find comparative examples, we must look to Scandinavia. Viking age heritage in Cumbria, sometimes called ‘Anglo-Scandinavian’ culture, is well documented.” Cumbria is home to numerous ...

Viking age heritage in Cumbria, sometimes called ‘Anglo-Scandinavian’ culture, is well documented.” Cumbria is home to numerous Scandinavian place names, dialect influences, Viking burials ...

Archaeologists have unearthed what they believe to be a Viking-age building in a recent dig. Teams of volunteers dug up High Tarns Farm in Silloth, Cumbria, in July after crop marks indicated a ...

A Viking Age hall, believed to be the largest of its kind ever discovered in Britain, has been uncovered during an archaeological dig at High Tarns in Cumbria.