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The Anglo-Saxon period spans the time after the Romans left England in 410 and before the Norman Conquest of 1066. England was not a united country. It was divided up into separate kingdoms. The...
The Anglo-Saxons did not import the 'long-house', the traditional dwelling of the continental Germanic peoples, to Britain. Instead they upheld a local vernacular British building tradition dating back to the late first century.
May 10, 2024 · Anglo-Saxon England refers to the period in British history from the 5th to the 11th century, beginning with the Roman withdrawal from Britain and ending with the Norman Conquest in 1066. This era was marked by the migration of Germanic tribes—mainly the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—to Britain.
Learn who Aethelflaed was and what the different kingdoms were in Anglo-Saxon Britain. Read how the country was ruled by different tribes in this BBC history guide.
Anglo-Saxon rule came to an end in 1066, soon after the death of Edward the Confessor, who had no heir. He had supposedly willed the kingdom to William of Normandy, but also seemed to favour ...
The earliest large-scale excavation of an Early Anglo-Saxon settlement was undertaken by E. T. Leeds at the site of Sutton Courtenay in Berkshire (Leeds 1923, 1926 –7, 1947) (see Figure 2.1). In the 1920s, Leeds salvaged about two dozen sunken-featured buildings (SFBs) from gravel quarrying.
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There was much change in Britain during the fifth century, caused by the economic and political disruption that followed the end of Roman rule, as well as the influx of new ideas and new people we tend to call the 'Anglo-Saxons'.
