Notre Dame alumnus and Hillsdale College professor Brad Birzer spoke on the impact of the Anglo-Saxon cultural inheritance on ...

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It was hailed as one of the most exciting archaeological finds in Britain in decades: an undisturbed Anglo-Saxon burial chamber chanced upon during a road widening project near Prittlewell, in Essex.

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