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Frame work of the reconstruction of Anglo Saxon dwelling at West Stow in Suffolk
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Frame work of the reconstruction of Anglo Saxon dwelling at West Stow in Suffolk
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Map of Anglo-Saxon E...
In 410, Honorius, the Roman Emperor withdrew his troops from Britannia (Britain). Over the next century people from the coastland of Denmark, Germany, Frisia and the lower Rhine came in search of new land and settled in England. These invaders were known as the Anglo-Saxons. They absorbed, displac...
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Early Anglo-Saxon vi...
Artists impression of an early Anglo-Saxon village. Anglo-Saxon family groups consisted largely of farmer-warriors. They had little interest in the Roman towns and clustered on newly conquered farmland. There lives centered on the village and farm. In the hall of the leader they told tales of old wa...
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West Stow was an example of an early Anglo-Saxon village. This picture gives an impression of West Stow or Stowa (meaning place) may have been like. From around 450AD, it was home to three or four Anglo-Saxon families, their slaves and animals. Each of the families had a hall for meetings and houses...
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Map of West Stow Ang...
This map shows an early Anglo-Saxon Settlement. The people of West Stow were farmers. They lived peacefully in the village. They made their own iron pottery and cloth. They kept sheep, cattle, pigs, ponies, geese and hens. They hunted with dogs and fished the nearby river. They traded for glass bead...
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Anglo-Saxon village ...
The Anglos and Saxon were two of the groups of warrior farmers who crossed the North sea into Britain from around 400AD onwards. They set up farms and small villages like this one that has been reconstructed at West Stow in Suffolk. The village was built on a low hill by the river Lark. Picture take...
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For the first time in England , the site of an entire early Anglo- Saxon village was fully excavated between 1965 and 1972. Outline traces of the houses were found, along with many objects belonging to the original inhabitants. In 1974 it was decided to reconstruct on the original site some of the S...
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Anglo-Saxon Village ...
Picture of reconstructed houses at the site. This village appears to have comprised of two, maybe three families - including relatives and slaves totalling about sixty people at any one time. Each family had a Hall and a number of smaller house type buildings.
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The location of Anglo-Saxon settlements in the Lark Valley, often identified by their cemeteries, suggests that these old land division became the parish boundaries of late Saxon times, many of which last to the present day.
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Anglo-Saxon Village ...
Anglo-Saxon families were often large with many children. For the family slaves life was very hard and the results of their hard work was enjoyed by others. This picture shows a reconstruction the type of houses they may have lived in in the 5th and 6th centuries.
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Anglo-Saxon Village ...
This village was part of what was to become the new kingdom of the East Angles. King Raedwald was their most powerful ruler. He dies in 625AD and is thought to have been buried at Sutton Hoo. Around this time new Christian settlements around churches and the growth or towns saw older settlements lik...
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Anglo-Saxo Village ...
This reconstructed village was built to find out more about how the Anglo-Saxons may have lived. Each house in the village is slightly different and is built to test theories about how their houses were constructed based on the archaeological evidence that was found at this site and others.
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The oldest house
Excavations at West Stow showed evidence of around 76 buildings. Archaeologist used this evidence to reconstruct some of the homes. This house was built with the simplest technology in 1974. It tests the basic idea of a living floor above a pit (pits were found at the site). The roof is supported by...
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Outside Oven
Picture taken at West Stow, Suffolk simmer 2006.
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Weaving House West S...
Excavations at West Stow showed evidence of around 76 buildings. Archeologist used this evidence to reconstruct some of the buildings. The weaving house was built in 1984. It is a two post house and has been fitted out with weaving looms as a weaving shed to show the evidence from the burned houses ...
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