When he dons his gleaming metal helmet, he’s Sir Brian De Catton, a 15th-century knight in shining armor. When he takes it off, he’s Brian Caton, a jovial 50-year-old medieval performer from ...

A pair of "extremely rare" structures from the early medieval period and evidence of a Roman settlement have been uncovered in the United Kingdom. The remains were identified during an excavation ...

From the radiocarbon dates taken from the bark sheets, it is known she lived during the early medieval period between 680–810 AD. When she died, she had been between the ages of 28 and 40.

Dating from the Early Medieval era, which ran from 400 to 1100 AD, the skeletons are from “a period which is very poorly documented in historical sources, and for which we have comparatively few ...

These include early medieval objects from Meath, Westmeath, Limerick, Dublin, Donegal, and Kerry. The Lough Kinale Book Shrine is Ireland’s oldest and largest container for a sacred book.

These structures are typical of the design of early medieval halls or "longhouses" (long, narrow buildings designed for communal dwelling) that date between the 6th and 11th centuries A.D.