Discovered in a field in Scotland in 2014, the Viking Age "community property" is now the focus of a new exhibition in ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw land territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland. He was the first 'King of all ...

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

Ten years ago in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, metal detectorists stumbled upon pieces of silver and gold. Researchers ...

Runic inscriptions on an 1,100-year-old arm ring unearthed in Scotland suggest that the hoard of silver and gold it was ...

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of metal detectorist George Powell who stole a hoard of gold coins and jewellery valued at £3 million.

This time we will take the Vikings by surprise and this time we will win! FX: Cheering. Music Narrator: Soon after - at the Battle of Edington - Alfred was as good as his word. The Anglo-Saxon ...

A famed Viking-age silver hoard discovered in Scotland may have belonged to an entire community of people, rather than one ...

A newly translated runic inscription has shed light on the Galloway Hoard, considered to be one of the richest collections of ...

Mercia saw the rise of kings, Christianity and our very identity, as Max Adams reveals in this genius history, The Mercian Chronicles ...

In other Anglo-Saxon writings from the period ... Around the time the Galloway Hoard was buried, the Vikings were raiding monasteries—so maybe this particular religious community hid its ...

The Viking Age hoard, which contains more than 11lbs (5kg ... based on four arm rings inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes. Three of the inscriptions feature Old English name elements, but the fourth and ...