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Grave goods show that women were identified as weavers in the early
Anglo-Saxon period, rather than specifically spinners, as occurs
later. A key piece of weaving equipment found in migration era
burials is the iron beater, shaped during this period like a sword.
Spear shaped beaters appear later in the seventh century. This
study is centred on a corpus of sword and spear shaped beaters not
only from Anglo-Saxon England (centred on East Kent), but also from
Norway, where the earliest examples are found and from Alamannia.
Conclusions are drawn about the processes and social composition of
textile production, including any separation of weaving and
spinning, and discuss why tools associated with the women's task of
weaving should be shaped as objects with masculine associations.
Prompted by two contradictory references to the nature and extent
of woodlands in Cudham during the medieval period, Sue Harrington
embarked upon a survey of the history of woodlands in this part of
the North Downs. With the Domesday Book referring to extensive
ploughlands and a slighty later reference to extensive woodlands,
this study was designed to find out which was correct and what
impact London had on Cudham in terms of offering a market for its
surpluses. The methodology of Harrington's fieldwork and
documentary research is outlined and background material on the
environment, geology, patterns of settlement and land use, are
presented. A core-periphery model is used to describe the
relationship between Cudham and London.
The Tribal Hidage, attributed to the 7th century, records the named
groups and polities of early Anglo-Saxon England and the taxation
tribute due from their lands and surpluses. Whilst providing some
indication of relative wealth and its distribution, rather little
can be deduced from the Hidage concerning the underlying economic
and social realities of the communities documented. Sue Harrington
and the late Martin Welch have adopted a new approach to these
issues, based on archaeological information from 12,000 burials and
28,000 objects of the period AD 450-650. The nature, distribution
and spatial relationships of settlement and burial evidence are
examined over time against a background of the productive
capabilities of the environment in which they are set, the
availability of raw materials, evidence for metalworking and other
industrial/craft activities, and communication and trade routes.
This has enabled the identification of central areas of wealth that
influenced places around them. Key within this period was the
influence of the Franks who may have driven economic exploitation
by building on the pre-existing Roman infrastructure of the
south-east. Frankish material culture was as widespread as that of
the Kentish people, whose wealth is evident in many well-furnished
graves, but more nuanced approaches to wealth distribution are
apparent further to the West, perhaps due to ongoing interaction
with communities who maintained an essentially 'Romano-British' way
of life.
The Tribal Hidage, attributed to the 7th century, records the named
groups and polities of early Anglo-Saxon England and the taxation
tribute due from their lands and surpluses. Whilst providing some
indication of relative wealth and its distribution, rather little
can be deduced from the Hidage concerning the underlying economic
and social realities of the communities documented. Sue Harrington
and the late Martin Welch have adopted a new approach to these
issues, based on archaeological information from 12,000 burials and
28,000 objects of the period AD 450-650. The nature, distribution
and spatial relationships of settlement and burial evidence are
examined over time against a background of the productive
capabilities of the environment in which they are set, the
availability of raw materials, evidence for metalworking and other
industrial/craft activities, and communication and trade routes.
This has enabled the identification of central areas of wealth that
influenced places around them. Key within this period was the
influence of the Franks who may have driven economic exploitation
by building on the pre-existing Roman infrastructure of the
south-east. Frankish material culture was as widespread as that of
the Kentish people, whose wealth is evident in many well-furnished
graves, but more nuanced approaches to wealth distribution are
apparent further to the West, perhaps due to ongoing interaction
with communities who maintained an essentially 'Romano-British' way
of life.
The roots of England lie within the fertile soil of its earliest
kingdom, that of the people of Kent. Here, for a brief moment under
King Æthelbert of Kent (c.560-616) this corner of England was
transformed into the first Anglo-Saxon and Christian kingdom. But
who were the Anglo-Saxons and what happened in Kent during the Dark
Ages after the departure of the Roman legions in AD 410? This book
draws archaeological and historical evidence together for the first
time in one volume to explain how Kent became the most important
place in England, noted for its power, culture, wealth and
international contacts and why, by the ninth century, it had become
absorbed by its more powerful neighbours, the Anglo-Saxons.
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