Dig Into History – April 2019

38 granules, for example — can be recovered from these sites. These plants and plant parts are preserved in a number of differen ...

made with these grains was then flavored by adding poppy seeds, celery seeds, and seeds of the flax plant. Vegetables and fruits ...

F ew written documents survive from the Viking Age. Most of them were written by church officials or chroniclers for kings. They ...

as an iron would be today), a comb, a spindle whorl, and needles. All these items made it clear that this was the grave of a wom ...

42 Whose Burial? Despite the lack of skeletons, the gra goods did tell us something about th identities of the people buried the ...

43 was the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, and to the East was the old kingdom of Northumbria. Both had been ravaged by the “Grea ...

44 by Regan Eby O n October 14, 1066, at the Battle of Hastings, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwineson, faced ...

45 Edward’s brother-in-law and the most powerful and wealthy person in England, was in Normandy. William made Harold, whom he ha ...

Pope is the title given to the head of the Roman Catholic Church. to patrol the coast, and sent spies to monitor William’s activ ...

47 fought in the north, William landed unopposed on the south coast. The invaders established their base in the town of Hastings ...

be shot with arrows or killed from horseback. The English shield wall held its position, but the English had lost so many troops ...

Identify the Pollen! Can you identify 6 pollen grains of ash, oak, and sycamore — 18 pollen grains in total — in the microscope ...

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54 n this issue, we have looked at the Anglo- Saxon period in England from a variety of angles. What is definite is that life in ...

555 Definitely a captivating poster image telling all of Tolkien’s trilogy, The Lord of the Rings ...

56 were grouped together under a single archbishop who was based in the city of Canterbury. Churchmen and churchwomen, however, ...

57 T he Sutton Hoo helmet (right) is perhaps the best-known Anglo-Saxon artifact. Uncovered in 1939, the helmet likely belonged ...