ANGLO-SAXON INDEX
at Trinity College, Cambridge
http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/sdk13/asindex.html

Anglo-Saxon sites

under construction
(selection of sites and scanning of images still in progress)

A person interested in the history of Anglo-Saxon England soon finds how much is to be gained from visiting sites of historical interest. At some places (e.g. Yeavering) there is now little or nothing to be seen; but at such places there is even more scope for the exercise of the historical imagination. For regional guidance, see N. and M. Kerr, A Guide to Anglo-Saxon Sites (1982), or L. and J. Laing, A Guide to Dark Age Remains in Britain (1979).

[English Heritage] [National Trust] [Images of England]

Settlements, cemeteries, churches, battle sites, etc.

• Rural settlements, towns, and royal estates
  • West Stow (with a new Visitor Centre)
  • Yeavering, Northumberland
  • Cheddar, Somerset
  • York / Jorvik Viking Centre
• Cemeteries and burials
  • Cremation cemeteries
  • Inhumation cemeteries
    • Eriswell, at RAF Lakenheath (USAF Base in Suffolk), with 261 inhumations (including spectacular burial of a man with his horse) and about 25 cremations, excavated in the late 1990s
  • The Sutton Hoo ship-burial, Suffolk (seventh-century)
    • search for 'Sutton Hoo' on the BM's Compass database
  • The Taplow mound, Buckinghamshire
    • search for 'Taplow' on the BM's Compass database
  • Prittlewell, Essex
    • Report (MoLAS) on the discovery in 2003 of the seventh-century chamber grave of a well-to-do Essex Man
• Monasteries, churches, and sculpture
  • Anglo-Saxon churches
  • Lindisfarne (official website of Holy Island)
    • Lindisfarne Priory (English Heritage) (virtual tour, by Dr D. Vess)
    • Lindisfarne Castle (National Trust)
    • The Lindisfarne Gospels (British Library)
  • Wearmouth and Jarrow
    • Bede's World, Jarrow, Northumbria
  • Whitby
  • Ruthwell Cross
  • Crowland, Lincolnshire
  • Clofesho (site of several meetings of Southumbrian church councils in the late seventh, eighth and early ninth centuries; not yet located)
  • Brigstock, Northamptonshire
  • Brixworth, Northamptonshire (major eighth-century church in land of the Middle Angles)
  • The Hædda Stone, Medeshamstede (Peterborough Cathedral)
  • Wirksworth, Derbyshire
  • Breedon-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire
    • sculpture (late eighth-century)
  • St Albans, Hertfordshire
  • Deerhurst (St Mary's Church), Gloucestershire
    • The Deerhurst Angel (19 September 2004) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
    • Breakfast with the angel [1] [2]
  • Deerhurst (Odda's Chapel), Gloucestershire
    • Views [1] [2] [3]
    • inscribed stone (in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
    • inscribed stone (replica in the chapel)
  • Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire ('discovered' in 1856)
  • Wing, Buckinghamshire
  • Sompting, Sussex
  • All Saints, Earls Barton, Northamptonshire
  • St Peter's, Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire
  • St Benets, Cambridge
  • Breamore, Hampshire
  • St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester
  • Bosham, Sussex
  • Romsey Abbey, Hampshire
• Sites of special historical interest
  • Offa's Dyke
  • Ellendun (Wroughton), Wiltshire (site of West Saxon victory over the Mercians in 825)
  • Athelney, Somerset (where King Alfred burnt the cakes in 878)
  • Edington, Wiltshire (site of Alfred's victory over the Danes in 878)
  • Fortified sites (burhs) listed in the Burghal Hidage
    • Wareham, Dorset
    • <etc.>
  • Cuerdale, Lancashire (where the Cuerdale Hoard was discovered)
  • Brunanburh (site of King Æthelstan's victory over the Scots and Hiberno-Norse in 937; not yet located)
  • Sandwich, Kent (landing-place of viking fleets)
  • Maldon, Essex (site of the viking defeat of Ealdorman Byrhtnoth in 991)
  • Greenwich (where Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury, was martyred in 1012)
  • Ashdown, Essex (site of Cnut's defeat of the English in 1016)
  • Guildford, Surrey (where the Ætheling Alfred was captured by Earl Godwine in 1036)
  • Hastings, Sussex (no comment)
  • Ely (site of siege in 1071)

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