Daily Medieval

On the Moray Firth in Scotland is the remains of a Pictish fort, called Burghead Fort because of its proximity to the small town of Burghead...

So far as medieval records go, we usually have good lists of rulers and church personnel, especially since churches/abbeys are most likely t...

Some of the pieces from the Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire Hoard. The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver coins was uncovered in St...

Part of the Tutbury Hoard The sudden acquisition of wealth can change people. When coins started to be found in. the River Dove in 1831...

The coins were found in casks in the River Dove Workers in 1831, while repairing a mill-race on the Dove River, found a chunk of mud-ca...

Edward I penny from the Colchester Hoard Among the treasures found accidentally by digging or deliberately by people wielding metal det...

Roman hoard found at St. Albans Speaking of digging up old things... Every once in awhile we hear of someone finding a hoard of coins...

Tollund Man, found in a bog in Denmark You have no doubt seen articles of bodies and artifacts found in peat bogs, such as the Gundestr...

On 28 May, 1891, a worker digging in a peat bog near Gundestrup in Denmark made an extraordinary find: a shallow bowl holding a dozen cur...

The skull of Skeleton 180, with sword damage The monks of Lewes Priory ran a Hospital of St. Nicholas in the Middle Ages, now long gone...