Wessex in the Early Middle AgesLeicester University Press, 1995 - 367 pages Wessex is central to the study of early medieval English history; it was the dynasty which created the kingdom of England. This volume uses archaeological and place-name evidence to present an authoritative account of the most significant of the English Kingdoms. |
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Page 46
... cemetery associated with a Romano - Celtic temple , 176 and the cemetery at Snell's Corner in southern Hampshire may be another example of a cemetery which began in the Roman period , but was subsequently used for inter- ments in the ...
... cemetery associated with a Romano - Celtic temple , 176 and the cemetery at Snell's Corner in southern Hampshire may be another example of a cemetery which began in the Roman period , but was subsequently used for inter- ments in the ...
Page 152
... cemetery of Cannington inside a hill- fort is more surprising . Hill - forts were favoured locations for pagan temples in Somerset in the fourth century and it is possible that a circular rock - cut structure on the hill above the cemetery ...
... cemetery of Cannington inside a hill- fort is more surprising . Hill - forts were favoured locations for pagan temples in Somerset in the fourth century and it is possible that a circular rock - cut structure on the hill above the cemetery ...
Page 296
... cemetery at Alton ( Hants ) ( fig . 76 ) .26 The buckle was probably made in Kent where eight similar ones are known and the only findspots of such buckles outside Kent , in addition to Alton , are the ' princely burials ' at Taplow ...
... cemetery at Alton ( Hants ) ( fig . 76 ) .26 The buckle was probably made in Kent where eight similar ones are known and the only findspots of such buckles outside Kent , in addition to Alton , are the ' princely burials ' at Taplow ...
Contents
A Period of Transition Wessex c 400c 600 | 8 |
regional and foreign links | 24 |
AngloSaxon sources for the early history of Wessex | 32 |
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Abingdon Æthelred Æthelweard Aldhelm Alfred Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Anglo-Saxon England Anglo-Saxon period Arch Archaeology areas Asser Athelstan Attenborough B.A.E. Yorke Bede Berkshire Biddle bishop British Brooks Burghal Hidage burhs burial Cadbury Celtic cemetery centres Cenwalh charters Christian Cnut Conquest Devon Domesday Book Dorchester Dorset Dumnonia Dumville ealdorman early eastern Wessex ecclesiastical Edward the Elder eighth century estates Ethelwold evidence Excavations Exeter Finberg Germanic Gildas Glastonbury Hampshire Hamwic Hants hides hill-fort History Ilchester Ine's Isle of Wight Keynes and Lapidge land late Roman late Saxon later Anglo-Saxon Malmesbury manor Medieval Mercian minster churches monastery monastic ninth century nunneries Old English Old Minster original place-names pottery probably province Rahtz recorded region reign Roman Britain royal house saints Saxon period seems settlement seventh century Sherborne shires Silchester sixth Somerset Southampton Southern England Studies tenth thegns towns Viking Wareham Wessex West Saxon kings western Wilts Wiltshire Winchester