THE ANGLO-SAXONS

Pietro Picardi

RULING BRITAIN

INVADE:Enter with force and violence into territory to

occupy,pillage,plunder it.

SETTLE: Make it simple, clear, understandable something.

- Before the Anglo-Saxons invasion the Romans ruled in Britain.

ANGLO-SAXON ROMAN BRITAIN

- Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain in beetween fifth and sixth centuries.

- Anglo-Saxons were from northern Germany and Denmark.

- The Anglo-Saxon settled in Northern and Center England. They conquered Northumbia,East Anglia,part of Mercia,the Wessex and the Kent.

- The Anglo-Saxons felt threatened by the Picts,and for this reason they attacked Romans and they established many territories there.

LIFE IN ANGLO-SAXONS BRITAIN

- Most Anglo-Saxons invasors were farmers and deep-sea fisherman. They were organized in family groups called “clans”.In only “clan” there were a head.Only member of the clan was linked by the other members by a fidelity tie.They exalted physical courage and personal freedom and they cared for their beauty.They partecipated in many banquets and they worked with metals to create helmets,swords,shield and a lot of other objects and decorations.

GRAVE AT SUTTON HOO- Sutton Hoo, near Suffolk coast in

England is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries of the sixth and seventh centuries. It was discovered in 1939.

- One of the two cemeteries contained a funerary vessel complete with a large number of artifacts of great archaeological significance and artistic.

- The three main possessions found in the grave are: a ceremonial helmet;a shoulder-clasp and a sword.

- In the ship a person died. The corp of this person wasn’t found but probably this person was very rich.

- Archeologists think that the ship was dragged from the river to the hill for a trench.

- I think the grave belongs to Raedwald,the most powerful king in all England around 620.