Two letters in Monday's Daily Telegraph suggest modifications to the interpretation being given to the coins and treasure found last Oc...

A friend kindly drew my attention to the report on The Times about the discovery a couple of months ago of the Watlington hoard and the n...

Each day Wikipedia features one of their onine articles, and yesterday they chose a very interesting one about the aetheling Aethelwold, t...

Today is the 1115th anniversary of the death in 899 of King Alfred the Great. The only English King to be consistently so described he wa...

I have been meaning to finish writing this post for ages, and over the Christmas and New Year holiday I have found both my notes and the op...

I see on the BBC website that a fragment of bone unearthed in 1999 could well be part of the remains of King Alfred the Great or of his son...