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Wasperton - A Roman, British and Anglo-Saxon Community in Central England (Hardcover, New)
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Wasperton - A Roman, British and Anglo-Saxon Community in Central England (Hardcover, New)
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
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The newest research on a major Anglo-Saxon site paints a vivid
picture of the beginnings of England. [Edited by Martin Carver] For
decades scholars have puzzled over the true story of settlement in
Britain between the fifth and eight centuries. Did the Romans
leave? Did the Anglo-Saxons invade? What happened to the British?
Newlight on these questions comes unexpectedly from Wasperton, a
small village on the Warwickshire Avon, where archaeologists had
the good fortune to excavate a complete cemetery and its
prehistoric setting. The community reused an old Romano-British
agricultural enclosure, and built burial mounds beside it. There
was a score of cremations in Anglo-Saxon pots; but there were also
unfurnished graves lined with stones and planks in the manner of
western Britain. In a pioneering analysis, including radiocarbon
and stable isotopes, the authors of this book have put this variety
of burial practice into a credible sequence, and built up a picture
of life at the time. Here there were people who were culturally
Roman, British and Anglo-Saxon, pagan and Christian in continuous
use of the same graveyard and drawing on a common inheritance. Here
we can see the beginnings of England and the people who made it
happen- not the kings, warriors and preachers, but the ordinary
folk obliged to make their own choices: choices about what nation
to build and which religion to follow. MARTIN CARVER is Professor
Emeritus of Archaeology at the University of York; Dr CATHERINE
HILLS is Senior Lecturer in Anglo-Saxon Archaeology at the
University of Cambridge; Dr JONATHAN SCHESCHKEWITZ is Officer with
the Ancient Monuments authority of Stuttgart.
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