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Anglo Saxon England: A guide to online resources
http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/
early/pre1000/ASindex.html
Part of the ORB Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies, this website has perhaps the best set of web links covering everything from original Anglo-Saxon texts to bibliographies, maps and teaching resources.

Anglo-Saxon England
www.anthro.mankato.msus.edu/vi/angsaxe.htm
Includes, among much else, a map of Anglo-Saxon Britain and a detailed bibliography.

Angelcynn Anglo-Saxon Living History 400–900 AD
www.angelcynn.org.uk
Excellent website run by the Angelcynn Anglo-Saxon re-enactment society. Contains material on the history, warfare, weapons, armour, clothing and appearance of pagan and Christian Anglo-Saxons, with details on their culture, myths and religion, information on various finds, useful links and an invaluable Anglo-Saxon glossary.

Anglo-Saxon cemeteries
http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Archaeology/
resources/Anglo-Saxon/cemeteries/index.html
This website contains pointers to a series of resources relating to early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries. Jeremy Huggett, who maintains the site, carried out PhD research involving an analysis of social aspects of burial. As part of this work an early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries database was assembled, consisting primarily of cemeteries from central and central southern England. The database is available on the site, together with a distribution map of the major cemeteries included and discussions on various aspects of early Anglo-Saxon burials. This, for example, introduces Huggett’s discussion on sexing and ageing burials:

‘Burials have been traditionally sexed on the basis of associated grave goods – brooches and beads with females, weapons with males. The fact that it can be demonstrated that males may also be accompanied by brooches and beads has not detracted from this method. The sex and age of a skeleton are important in social terms as primary burial attributes, and consequently it is necessary to know how the assignments were achieved in order to avoid problems of circularity (brooches are found with females, burial A is accompanied by brooch B, burial A is therefore female, brooch B is associated with a female burial, brooches are associated with female burials). Skeletal attributes may be used to age and sex skeletal evidence independently of any associated artefacts, but it has been found that there may be differences in the attribution of sex according to skeletal methods and by associated grave goods.’

Sutton Hoo Society
www.suttonhoo.org/
As the other location from which a Byzantine 'bucket' has been found, Time Teamsters might like to know that they can find reference to the Sutton Hoo example (the 'Bromeswell Bucket') in the journal Antiquity (No 63, 1989 pp 295-311). A photograph of the (much-damaged) bucket is included in Saxon No 32, the Sutton Hoo Society's newsletter; Saxon No 33 includes an account of the second Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Sutton Hoo, uncovered last summer. To obtain copies (£1 each plus postage) e-mail publications@suttonhoo.org.

Further details about visiting the Sutton Hoo burial site are available on the society's website, which offers an online interactive tour of the site. Details of how to join the Society are also on the website. The lavish grave goods found at Sutton Hoo, England's premier Anglo-Saxon burial site, are on display at the British Museum.

Current Archaeology: Taplow Saxon burial
www.archaeology.co.uk/issues/ca175/
taplow/taplow.htm
Taplow is one of the magical names in Anglo-Saxon archaeology. Here in 1883 a great treasure was discovered: within the churchyard at Taplow lay a great mound and when this was opened, a magnificent Anglo-Saxon burial was uncovered at the centre. It was the most spectacular Saxon burial hitherto known in Britain, and remained so until the discovery of Sutton Hoo in 1939. This edited version of an article in the September 2001 issue of Current Archaeology looks at the background to this Anglo-Saxon burial place – presumably the 'low' (barrow) of Tappa? The Current Archaeology website (www.archaeology.co.uk) also has information on the Sutton Hoo burial as well as acting as a gateway to the world of British archaeology.

Regia Anglorum
www.regia.org/
Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman reconstruction society, used by Time Team on the Live 2001.

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