Britain from Antiquity through 1065

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• The Megalithic Portal

Going well beyond just Stonehenge...

Commentary and images on ancient sites in Britain and Ireland.

Try the searchable map or database to locate specific localities and sites.

(Facsimiles & commentary)

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• Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Scanning Project

Entire run of the society's proceedings, monographs, and Archaeologia Scotica.

(1792 to the present; facsimiles)

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• Ancient and Historical Sites in Wales

Photographs from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

(Mostly antiquity; photo facsimiles)

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• Vindolanda Tablets Online

Wooden tablets recording life in Roman Britain at an outpost in Northern England.

(1st - 2nd Centuries; facsimiles with transcriptions and commentary)

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• Ruthwell Cross runic inscriptions

(Late 7th or early 8th century; transcriptions)

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• The Lindisfarne Gospels

This has been called "...the book that made Britain." (The Sunday Times, May 11, 2003)

An selection of pages by the British Library.

(715-720; facsimiles & commentary)

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• Laws of Alfred and Ine

Taken from the Parker Chronicle

(832-900; Old English transcription)

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• The Life of King Alfred

by Asser, Bishop of Sherborne.

(888; modern English translation)

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• Regesta Regum Anglorum

A searchable edition of the corpus of Anglo-Saxon charters.

With metadata and commentaries provided by Sean Miller.

(670-1066; transcriptions)

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• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Georgetown e-edition

(Old English transcription)

• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Online Medieval and Classical Library e-edition

(Modern English translation)

(1-1154)

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• Anglo-Saxon Tribal Hidage

(Early demographics; Old English transcription & map)

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• Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

Scroll down to "Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts."

(Facsimiles & transcripts)

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• The Planctus for William Longsword

This mourning poem "is by far the earliest work written about the Normans from the Norman point of view...."

It also serves as "an excellent laboratory in medieval philology."

(943; Latin facsimiles and variant text transcriptions with English and German translations)

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• Early Manuscripts at Oxford University

(9th to 16th centuries; facsimiles)

• Medieval Sourcebook: England

(Transcriptions and translations)

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• Sources: 11th and 12th Centuries

Includes records of religious houses, higher clergy and early urban government.

From British History Online

(11th & 12th centuries, transcriptions)

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