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From the BBC, The discovery of a chariot burial next to the A1 has highlighted the role of
developers in modern archaeology.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/3325091.stm
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Treasures of a Saxon King of Essex
In autumn 2003 a spectacular 7th-century grave was unearthed at Prittlewell, Essex. The Museum of
London describes the discoveries and its own exhibition of them.
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/MOLsite/exhibits/prittlewell/
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Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Buckets
Oxford University provides a database of the archive of Jean Mary Cook, specialist on wooden
buckets. Includes a description of bucket parts and a distribution map.
http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/archives/asbuckets/
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Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture
The University of Durham hosts information on this publication project. Includes images and a map
showing the counties covered by each volume.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/corpus/
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ORB: Anglo-Saxon England
Academic site with a wealth of resources. Provides essays, bibliographies, images, documents,
links, and other resources.
http://the-orb.net/encyclop/early/pre1000/asindex.html
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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.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/802819.stm
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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.
http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/~aczkdc/tenyrs/bindex.html
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Anglo-Saxon Coins
Simon Keynes provides images of coins from several reigns, covering early to late Saxon.
http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/sdk13/ascoins.html
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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.
http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/archaeology/flixboro.htm
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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.
http://www.gla.ac.uk/archaeology/resources/Anglo-Saxon/cemeteries/
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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.
http://www.eng-h.gov.uk/projects/whitby/wahpsae/
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St Laurence's 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.
http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/Research/bradford/
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Archaeologists Take the Wraps off Lady Godiva
The Telegraph reports that archaeologists have reconstructed what could be a glass portrait of Lady
Godiva.
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/08/23/ngodi23.xml
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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.
http://www.stpetersbarton.org.uk
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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.
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba60/feat2.shtml
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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.
http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/~aczkdc/asd/database.html
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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.
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/staff/sites/york_environs/menu.htm
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Map of Anglo-Saxon England
Matthew White shows the kingdoms c.860 and major sites. From the Old English Pages.
http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/oe/oe-map.html
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Sutton Hoo
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.
http://www.suttonhoo.org/
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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.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~assah/
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