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 ...

According to a new interpretation of runes carved on an artifact in the fabled Galloway Hoard, the treasure may have been ...

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

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

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 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.

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 ...

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

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

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