Dan Hitchens

Our love affair with the Anglo-Saxons

In the 12 years since the Staffordshire Hoard was discovered the Anglo-Saxons have well and truly escaped their ‘Dark Ages’ pigeonhole

The Dig tells the story of one of the greatest archaeological finds in British history, the Sutton Hoo ship burial, which changed how historians saw the Dark Ages. Credit: Larry Horricks/Netflix © 2021

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