Anglo-Saxon Period

Invasion of Britian AD 449

Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britian Angles, Saxons, Jutes,

and other Germanic tribes

Seafaring warriors

Vengeance and Bloodshed

Anglo-Saxon Settlement

of

Britian

Characteristics of Invaders

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Ancestral Tribes of Clans

Living Quarters—Mead Halls

A reconstructed Anglo-Saxon home located in West Stow in Sussex, England

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

• 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

Sutton Hoo

7th century helmet Reconstructed from

hundreds of corroded iron fragments

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.

Anglo-Saxon Brooch

Additional Anglo-Saxon Artifacts

King Offa’s Dyke

approximately 170 miles long running north and south

• continuous wall except for river crossings

• built in the late 8th century

Earth Embankment No fancy stonework No garrisoned posts 12 foot wide ditch on

Welsh side Height ranges from 10

to 60 feet

Construction

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 Offa’s power and control.

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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