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• - Simon Keynes provides images of coins from several reigns, covering early to late Saxon.
  
• - Trent and Peak Archaeological Trust has created a site database searchable by using an image-map showing the distribution of sites or by a text-based index. Bibliography.
  
• - The University of Durham hosts information on this publication project. Includes images and a map showing the counties covered by each volume.
  
• - Oxford University provides a database of the archive of Jean Mary Cook, specialist on wooden buckets. Includes a description of bucket parts and a distribution map.
  
• - An illustrated description from Hull City Council of the excavation by Humber Archaeology (1989-1991) of an exceptionally wealthy Anglo-Saxon site. Images of fine objects.
  
• - BBC News announces that an Anglo-Saxon cemetery has been uncovered during an archaeological dig at Sutton Hoo, where a wooden ship and treasure were discovered in 1939.
  
• - The Telegraph reports that archaeologists have reconstructed what could be a glass portrait of Lady Godiva.
  
• - Interim report 1996 on excavations of an Anglian and Anglo-Scandinavian settlement at Cottam, directed by Dr Julian Richards for the Archaeology Department, York University.
  
• - Academic site with a wealth of resources. Provides essays, bibliographies, images, documents, links, and other resources.
  
• - Cemeteries database drawn mainly from central and central southern England, compiled as part of a PhD thesis, is provided by Jeremy Huggett of Glasgow University.
  
• - In autumn 2003 a spectacular 7th-century grave was unearthed at Prittlewell, Essex. The Museum of London describes the discoveries and its own exhibition of them.
  
• - Results of the excavation of this Anglo-Saxon and later church, with the only extant Anglo-Saxon baptistery. Includes maps, phase plans, church memorials, history, bibliography and glossary.
  
• - English Heritage study of the 7th or 8th-century Southern Anglian enclosure. Location maps; history of the abbey; bibliography; illustrated excavation design and progress reports.
  
• - Annual journal concerned with the archaeology and history of England and its neighbours during the Anglo-Saxon period published by Oxford University Committee for Archaeology.
  
• - Matthew White shows the kingdoms c.860 and major sites. From the Old English Pages.
  
• - From the BBC, The discovery of a chariot burial next to the A1 has highlighted the role of developers in modern archaeology.
  
• - Antiquarian Bateman uncovered many 7th-century barrow burials in the Peak District. Biography and extracts from his publications of 1848 and 1861.
  
• - Article by Tim Eaton in British Archaeology on the way in which abandoned Roman sites in Britain were plundered for stone by Anglo-Saxon church builders.
  
• - Online tour of the famed Anglo-Saxon royal cemetery, courtesy of The Sutton Hoo Society: interactive map brings up information of features of the site. Visitor information.
  
• - Southampton University explains its work on one of the best-preserved early church buildings in England. History, architecture, excavation, interpretation and computer-based reconstructions.