Battle of Backbone Mountain

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Credit: Mike Quinn

The 7th century Bewcastle Cross, in Cumbria




Tidfrith Cross Slab
Tidfrith Cross Slab
Credit: Deacon of Pndapetzim

A 19th century engraving of a possibly early 9th century cross-slab from the cemetery of Wearmouth, north-east England




Hoard of Anglo-Saxon rings
Hoard of Anglo-Saxon rings
Credit: Portable Antiquities Scheme

Hoard of Anglo-Saxon rings found at Leeds, West Yorkshire.




Hoard of Anglo-Saxon rings
Hoard of Anglo-Saxon rings
Credit: David Rowan, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Pieces from the Staffordshire hoard, an Anglo-Saxon treasure trove discovered in 2009.




Credit: Unknown but associated with Eadfrith of Lindisfarne

Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels contains the incipit from the Gospel of Matthew. The Lindisfarne Gospels (now kept in the British Library) is an illuminated manuscript gospel book produced around the year 700.




The Devil's Dyke
The Devil's Dyke
Credit: Amitchell125

The Devil's Dyke (also called Reach Dyke or Devil's Ditch, once known as St Edmund's Ditch) is an earthwork near the village of Reach that is generally assumed to be an Anglo-Saxon earthwork. It is one of the largest and best surviving examples of its kind in England.




Anglo-Saxon Coppergate Helmet
Anglo-Saxon Coppergate Helmet
Credit: Fingalo

The 8th century Anglo-Saxon Coppergate Helmet




The Anglo-Saxon runes
The Anglo-Saxon runes
Credit: Rursus

The Anglo-Saxon runes (also Anglo-Frisian), also known as futhorc (or fuþorc) were used probably from the 5th century.




Hoard of Anglo-Saxon rings
Hoard of Anglo-Saxon rings
Credit: Odejea

The statue of Alfred the Great at Winchester by Hamo Thornycroft (1899).




Replica of the helmet from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial
Replica of the helmet from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial
Credit: Gernot Keller

Sutton Hoo, near Woodbridge, in Suffolk, is the site of two 6th- and early 7th-century cemeteries. One contained an undisturbed ship burial including a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artefacts of outstanding art-historical and archaeological significance, now held in the British Museum in London.