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10,119. The Sutton Hoo treasure – this is the finest hoard of Anglo Saxon gold ever dug up in Britain. (Art & Dark Ages & Anglo Saxon & Gold) Waldemar Januszczak, The Dark Ages: An Age of Light IV: The Men of the North, BBC 2012
10,122. A treasure made of granite and limestone … the Anglo Saxon funeral cross. (Art & Dark Ages & Anglo Saxon) ibid.
29,952. Your Roman-Saxon-Danish-Norman English. (England & Anglo Saxon) Daniel Defoe 1660-1731, The True-Born Englishman 1701
29,981. One of the most persistent ideas about the English is that they descend from northern Europeans ... the Anglo Saxons. It’s a potent idea ... But how true is it? (England & Anglo Saxon) Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, How God Made the English III: A White and Christian People? BBC 2012
29,982. According to genetic science the roots of the English are not Anglo Saxon but Spanish. (England & Anglo Saxon) ibid.
30,081. It was only a matter of time before the Saxons were back on English soil ... The Anglo-Saxons were pagan. (Great Britain & England & Empire: Rome & Anglo-Saxon) Bettany Hughes, Seven Ages of Britain 410 A.D. - 1066 A.D.
30,082. By the end of the 6th century A.D. what we now call England had been transformed by a wave of Anglo-Saxon immigrants. (Great Britain & England & Empire: Rome & Anglo-Saxon) ibid.
30,134. They were the Anglo-Saxons ... These were the ancestors of the English. (Great Britain & England & Anglo-Saxons) Michael Wood, The Great British Story: A People’s History: Britannia 1/8 BBC 2012
30,135. But from around the year 600 the Anglo-Saxon tribes began to be converted to Christianity by missionaries from Rome and saints from Ireland and the west. (Great Britain & England & Anglo-Saxon & Christianity) ibid.
30,141. So Britain in the 8th century was divided between the British peoples and the Anglo-Saxons ... Many tribes and small kingdoms. (Great Britain & England & Anglo-Saxon) Michael Wood, The Great British Nation: A People’s History 2/8
30,144. England was divided. North of Watling Street – Danelaw; but to the south – Alfred the Great’s Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons. (Great Britain & England & Viking & Anglo-Saxon) ibid.
30,149. The Anglo-Saxons lived under a kind of apartheid. (Great Britain & England & Normans & Anglo-Saxon) Michael Wood, The Great British Story: A People’s History: The Norman Yoke 3/8
30,185. AEthelflaed: The Lady of the Mercians … A power of power and high education and intelligence. (England & Alfred the Great & Women & Anglo-Saxon) Michael Wood, King Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons II: The Lady of the Mercians
30,186. A history of women as a whole has been erased everywhere. (England & Alfred the Great & Women & Anglo-Saxon) ibid.
30,187. The key to her warfare was fortress building. (England & Alfred the Great & Women & Anglo-Saxon) ibid.
30,188. AEthelstan: There was peace everywhere and abundance of all things. He was a mighty king worthy of high honour. (England & Alfred the Great & Anglo-Saxon) Michael Wood, King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons III: Aethelstan: The First King of England, BBC 2013
30,189. AEthelstan will turn the dream of Alfred the Great into a reality: a kingdom of all the English. (England & Alfred the Great & Anglo-Saxon) ibid.
30,190. A kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons … Winchester 899: the last days of Alfred’s life. (England & Alfred the Great & Anglo-Saxon) ibid.
30,191. The Staffordshire hoard’s intricate and beautiful artefacts display the skills of Anglo-Saxon goldsmiths at their very best. (England & Anglo-Saxon & Artefacts & Treasure) Time Team: Secrets of the Anglo-Saxon Gold, Channel 4 2012
30,192. The Treasury Valuation Committee later priced the hoard at over £3,000,000. (England & Anglo-Saxon & Artefacts & Treasure) ibid.
30,193. Sutton Hoo: an undisturbed magnificent royal ship burial and a whole series of spectacular artefacts. (England & Anglo-Saxon & Artefact & Ship & Treasure) ibid.
30,194. Garnets weren’t mined in England so where on earth did the Anglo-Saxons get their gem stones? (England & Anglo-Saxon & Artefacts & Treasure) ibid.
30,195. A super-school of art, specialising in metal work, particularly gold ... This was truly a golden age. (England & Anglo-Saxon) Dr Sam Newton, Anglo Saxon historian
30,196. The biggest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold every discovered has been found in a field in Staffordshire. (England & Anglo-Saxon) BBC News, September 2009
30,197. In July 2009 one lucky find lifted the lid on a long lost world: an astonishing treasure-trove of gold and silver hidden in a field in Staffordshire in the Midlands. (England & Anglo-Saxon & Treasure & Artefacts) Dan Snow, Saxon Hoard: A Golden Discovery, BBC2 2012
30,198. This is the story of the greatest find in generations. (England & Anglo-Saxon & Treasure & Artefacts) ibid.
30,199. 7th century England, about the time when the Staffordshire Hoard was hidden ... An Anglo-Saxon settlement of the 7th century. A thriving community with more than sixty buildings. (England & Anglo-Saxon & Treasure & Artefacts) ibid.
30,200. When the Anglo-Saxons built they used wood ... They didn’t leave too many clues behind them. (England & Anglo-Saxon & Treasure & Artefacts) ibid.
30,201. The find of a lifetime ... The true extent of the Hoard soon became clear. (England & Anglo-Saxon & Treasure & Artefacts) ibid.
30,202. A strong society with a unique and lasting culture. The Roman colonisation was supposed to have erased the ancient Britons ... But I don’t believe our ancient culture was overwhelmed as easy as that. (England & Anglo-Saxon & Empire: Rome & Arthur & Dark Ages & Great Britain) Dr Francis Pryor, Britain AD: King Arthur’s Britain I
30,203. Far from a dark age this was a time of huge creativity and development. (England & Anglo-Saxon & Empire: Rome & Arthur & Dark Ages & Great Britain) ibid.
30,204. Arthur is the ultimate commodity, a ready-made hero who has been hijacked by history. (England & Anglo-Saxon & Empire: Rome & Arthur & Dark Ages & Great Britain) ibid.
30,205. Archaeologists are starting to radically rethink the Roman invasion of Britain. (England & Anglo-Saxon & Empire: Rome & Arthur & Dark Ages & Great Britain) ibid.
30,206. Pre-Roman Britain was in fact a collection of often feudal tribal kingdoms. (England & Anglo-Saxon & Empire: Rome & Arthur & Dark Ages & Great Britain) ibid.
30,207. Britain turned its back on Rome and turned to an independent future. (England & Anglo-Saxon & Empire: Rome & Arthur & Dark Ages & Great Britain) ibid.
111,797. With the departure of the Roman troops historians imagined the end of history, and from their empty pages we have conjured a desolate wasteland … We call this the Dark Ages. In actual fact, sophisticated societies developed in Britain in the Dark Ages. (England & Anglo-Saxon & Arthur & Dark Ages & Great Britain) Dr Francis Pryor, Britain AD: King Arthur’s Britain II
111,798. If he existed at all, rose to power in these troubled years … Was Arthur invented to make up for a lack of real history? (England & Anglo-Saxon & Arthur & Dark Ages & Great Britain) ibid.
111,799. Dark Age Britain was a time of intellectual as well as economic advance. (England & Anglo-Saxon & Arthur & Dark Ages & Great Britain) ibid.