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Anglo-Saxon Period
449 - 1066
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Invasion of Britian AD 449
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Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britian

• Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and other Germanic tribes
• Seafaring warriors

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Vengeance and Bloodshed
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Anglo-Saxon Settlement of Britian
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Characteristics of Invaders
Ancestral Tribes of Clans
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Living QuartersMead Halls
A reconstructed Anglo-Saxon home located in West
Stow in Sussex, England

• Mead Hall
• center of life
• sleeping quarters
• dining area
• meeting place

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Sutton Hoo

• Located in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England
• Discovered in 1939
• Burial ship of an Anglo-Saxon king
• Burial site contained 41 items of solid gold
  and 37 gold coins

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• 7th century helmet
• Reconstructed from hundreds of corroded iron
  fragments

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Anglo-Saxon Brooch

• Anglo-Saxon pendant probably made in the 7th
  century AD
• found in garden soil at Sacriston, County
  Durham.
• made of solid gold with a goldwire or filigree
  decoration.

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Additional Anglo-Saxon Artifacts
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King Offas Dyke

• approximately 170 miles long running north and
  south
• continuous wall except for river crossings
• built in the late 8th century

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Construction

• Earth Embankment
• No fancy stonework
• No garrisoned posts
• 12 foot wide ditch on Welsh side
• Height ranges from 10 to 60 feet

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Monument to Power

• Perhaps this dyke was a defense against raiders
  from Wales.
• Perhaps it served as a permanent boundary between
  Mercia and Wales.
• Perhaps it was a boundary monument to remind the
  Welsh of King Offas power and control.

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Anglo-Saxon Cross Shaft

• Location St. Peter Advincula Church, Glebe
  Street, Stoke
• Re-erected on its modern base in 1935, the
  fragment of 10th Century Anglo-Saxon stone cross
  shaft had been used as a door lintel in the
  church until its discovery by a gravedigger in
  1876.
• The square sectioned top of the cylindrical shaft
  has a different decorative motif on each face.
  However part of the side key pattern has been cut
  away, probably to allow its use as the church's
  door lintel.S

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