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Whitby Abbey

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/conProperty.389

Features the 7th or 8th-century Southern Anglian enclosure. Offers its history, opening times, fees and directions.

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The Roads to Ruins

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/3325091.stm

From the BBC, The discovery of a chariot burial next to the A1 has highlighted the role of developers in modern archaeology.

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St Laurence's Chapel at Bradford-on-Avon

http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/research/bradford/

Southampton University explains its work on one of the best-preserved early church buildings in England. History, architecture, excavation, interpretation and computer-based reconstructions.

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ORB: Anglo-Saxon England

http://the-orb.net/encyclop/early/pre1000/asindex.html

Academic site with a wealth of resources. Provides essays, bibliographies, images, documents, links, and other resources.

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Old Ruins, New World

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba60/feat2.shtml

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.

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Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture

http://www.dur.ac.uk/corpus/

The University of Durham hosts information on this publication project. Includes images and a map showing the counties covered by each volume.

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Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Buckets

http://web.arch.ox.ac.uk/archives/asbuckets/

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.

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Archaeologists Take the Wraps off Lady Godiva

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1338227/Archaeologists-take-the-wraps-off-Lady-Godiva.html

The Telegraph reports that archaeologists have reconstructed what could be a glass portrait of Lady Godiva.

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Anglo-Saxon Coins

http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/sdk13/ascoins.html

Simon Keynes provides images of coins from several reigns, covering early to late Saxon.

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