Britain’s most spectacular Anglo-Saxon treasures may well have ... gold and garnet elements of a very high status seax (fighting knife), a spectacular gilded silver helmet, an impressive 30cm ...

They would have adorned a sword or seax (short sword or knife). Their elaborate and expensive decoration - many are made of gold and inlaid with garnets - suggests the weapons were once the ...

The British Museum has loaned items from the Anglo-Saxon ship burial ... This hilt collar from a seax - a long fighting or hunting knife - was found in the Staffordshire Hoard and resembles ...

Five of the graves had gold and silver brooches and a further burial had a seax - a type of Anglo-Saxon knife. "One burial had been placed upon a bed with the lady dressed wearing three gold ...

“But five of the graves had gold and silver brooches and a further burial had a seax, a type of Anglo-Saxon knife.” He added: “One burial had been placed upon a bed with the lady dressed ...

"Five of the graves had gold and silver brooches and a further burial had a seax, a type of Anglo-Saxon sword." One of the graves also contained a gold brooch "unparalleled" in Anglo-Saxon England, he ...

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and a small knife were also found with the body. Archaeologists said the craftsmanship of the cross was comparable to the royal Anglo-Saxon hoard discovered at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk. Dr Sam Lucy ...

Earlier this week, archaeologists unveiled the facial reconstruction of the remains of a seventh-century CE Anglo-Saxon teenage girl ... with the girl were an iron knife, a chatelaine (decorative ...