Links to organisations, libraries and museums with an Anglo-Saxon focus.


National Trust | Sutton Hoo: Information about visiting this Anglo-Saxon royal burial site, at Sutton Hoo, near Woodbridge in Suffolk, where, in 1939, a mound burial was revealed, containing priceless treasure in a great ship.

West Stow: This re-constructed Anglo-Saxon village is an archaeological site and open-air museum, near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.

The Gefrin Trust: Ad Gefrin (Yeavering in Northumberland) marks the site of the royal residence of early Anglo-Saxon Northumbrian kings. The aim of the Trust is to preserve, investigate and recount the history and impact of this important site, from prehistory right up to the latest investigations and finds.

Lyminge Archaeology: Lyminge, Kent, site of an Anglo-Saxon royal monastery. Archaeological research now demonstrates that Lyminge is one of the best preserved monastic sites in Kent, a region where Christianity first gained a foothold in Anglo-Saxon England.

The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company: The aim of the project is to create an interpretation of the Anglo-Saxon Mound 1 ship that provides the best possible means of testing and understanding how the ship could have been used under a range of different conditions.

Rendlesham Revealed - Suffolk Heritage Explorer: Community Archaeology project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Institute of Archaeology at University College London, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, Sutton Hoo Society, Council of British Archaeology East, East Suffolk Lines Community Rail Partnership, Community Rail Network Fund, Discover Suffolk. Rendlesham was the vicus regius or royal settlement of the Wuffing kings of East Angles.

Suffolk Institute: The Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology records all archaeological discoveries in Suffolk. Its Proceedings publishes articles on Suffolk’s history and archaeology

Wuffing Education: Dr. Sam Newton, independent scholar, author and lecturer, aims to provide a focus for the study of the history and culture of the Wuffing kingdom of East Anglia and beyond, with relevant resources, information and links. Wuffing Education Study Days provide a wide range of studies in the history and culture of medieval England and particularly East Anglia.

British Library: The British Library has a good collection of Early English manuscripts.

The Electronic Sawyer: The Sawyer catalogue lists every known early Charter.

Parker Library | Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge: The Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, has the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts in the world

British Museum: The much-visited Sutton Hoo gallery here is devoted to the 1939 finds and the museum has an extensive collection of early medieval material from other sites.

Colchester + Ipswich Museum: The Museum Services in Colchester and Ipswich have merged. Combining thousands of years of history, there are strong collections in Roman, Saxon and local in history in both towns.

The Ipswich Archaeological Trust: The Ipswich Archaeological Trust provide information on, and access to Suffolk archaeology.

Portable Antiquities: The Portable Antiquities Scheme records all reported finds in Suffolk.

Enactment Societies/Living History groups

Regia Anglorum: Early medieval Re-enactment and Living History Society. Splendid re-created A/S Hall.

Wulfheodenas | Facebook:  Re-enactors – the wolf-skin clad warriors guarding the Sutton Hoo High King, Raedwald.

Tha Engliscan Gesithas: Tha Engliscan Gesithas (The English Companions) - a society for all those interested in the history and culture, including language, of Anglo-Saxon England.

Thegns of Mercia: Thegns of Mercia: A not-for-profit group specialising in representing and exploring the 'Anglo-Saxon' period and its various cultures in Britain, promoting public interest and learning through archaeological reproduction and educational living history.