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Wider Wargaming => Genre/Period Discussion => Ancients to Renaissance (3000BC - 1680) => Topic started by: Druzhina on 12 January 2017, 05:42:26 AM

Title: 8th century Anglo-Saxons
Post by: Druzhina on 12 January 2017, 05:42:26 AM
(http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah223/druzhina3/6-9/th/Franks_Casket-lid_th.jpg)
The Franks Casket / The Auzon Casket, Anglo-Saxon, early 8th century, British Museum (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/6C-11C/Franks_Casket.htm)
. Anglo-Saxon Chieftain in Armies of the Dark Ages 600-1066 by Ian Heath, based on the Franks Casket (http://www.warfare.altervista.org//WRG/Dark_Ages-111-12-Anglo_Saxon_Chieftains.htm)

A mounted Anglo-Saxon warrior on the Repton Stone, 8th century (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/6C-11C/Repton_Stone.htm), perhaps Æthelbald of Mercia, Derby Museum and Art Gallery

A battle on the Pictish 'Aberlemno 2 Stone'. The riders in helmets are now thought to be Northumbrian Anglo-Saxons in Coppergate style helmets. (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/6C-11C/Aberlemno_2_stone.htm), Angus, Scotland, 8th-9th centuries

Druzhina
8th Century Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/8C.htm)
Title: Re: 8th century Anglo-Saxons
Post by: Techno on 12 January 2017, 06:11:02 AM
 8)

Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: 8th century Anglo-Saxons
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 12 January 2017, 07:42:33 AM
Great finds D