The settlement of Great Britain by Germanic peoples from continental Europe led to the development of an Anglo-Saxon cultural identity and a shared Germanic language, Old English, whose closest known
An 1130 depiction of Angles, Saxons and Jutes crossing the sea to Britain equipped with war gear from the Miscellany on the Life of St Edmund
Folio 3v from the Saint Petersburg Bede (National Library of Russia, lat. Q. v. I. 18), a near-contemporary version of the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
An Anglo-Frisian funerary urn excavated from the Snape ship burial in East Anglia. Item is located in Aldeburgh Moot Hall Museum
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Sub-Roman Britain
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Sub-Roman Britain, also called post-Roman Britain or Dark Age Britain, is the period of Late Antiquity in Great Britain between the end of Roman rule and the founding of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. The term
Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain
…Old English thus spread chiefly through political dominance, leaving only faint Celtic linguistic traces. Archaeological evidence indicates that sub-Roman Britain had significant economic and political structures into the 5th or 6th century, despite vulnerability to raids and settlement. According to Gildas, Saxon…
The end of Roman rule in Britain
Barbury Castle, a 6th-century hillfort in Wiltshire
Roman coins findings clearly indicate the areas of greatest "Romanization" and presence in Roman Britain.
Britain c. 540, in the time of Gildas