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Eastern Saxons and Eastern Angles
Mark Baister digging a warrior burial in Colchester (Colchester Archaeological Trust with Howard Brooks,
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| 10.00 | Coffee on arrival | ||
| 10.15 | From Roman to Saxon in Essex (HB): the elusive Saxons - absence of evidence, or evidence of absence? – the evidence from excavations and landscape study. | ||
| 11.15 | Coffee | ||
| 11.45 | From Roman to Saxon in Essex (HB): a Colchester case study – what excavations in Colchester tell us about the decline of the Roman town, and the Saxon occupation, including news of the recently-discovered late Roman or early Anglo-Saxon warrior burials from Colchester. | ||
| 12.45 | Lunch break | ||
| 14:00 | The Kingdom of the Eastern Saxons (SN): what we can deduce from the early medieval sources of the beginnings of Essex. | ||
| 15:00 | Tea break | ||
| 15:15 | The King of Prittlewell (SN): a consideration of what we know so far of the archaeology of the Prittlewell burial and its historical implications. | ||
| 16:20 | Close |
Howard Brooks MIFA FSA:
Howard studied archaeology at the University of Wales, and graduated in 1975. He worked for Colchester Archaeological Trust between 1976 and 1981, and again in 1985. Between 1986 and 1991, he worked for Essex County Archaeology Section, mainly in directing the excavation project at Stansted Airport. He is currently Deputy Director of Excavations for Colchester Archaeological Trust and a tutor for the University of Cambridge. He lives in Colchester with his wife and youngest daughter, and performs in ‘Am Drams’ and operettas in what little spare time he has.
Dr Sam Newton:
Sam Newton was awarded his Ph.D at UEA in 1991 and is the author of The Origins of Beowulf and the pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia (1993) and The Reckoning of King Rædwald (2003). He has lectured widely around the country as an independent scholar and has contributed to many radio and television programmes. He is also a Director of Wuffing Education, NADFAS lecturer, and Time Team historian.
Alexander, M., The First Poems in English (Penguin Classics 2008)
Bruce-Mitford, R., Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology (Gollancz 1974)
Crummy, P., Aspects of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Colchester, Colchester Archaeological Report 1, (1981)
Crummy, P., City of Victory (1997)
Esmonde Cleary, A.S., The Ending of Roman Britain (Batsford 1989)
Faulkner, N., The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain (Tempus 2004)
Kirby, D.P., The Earliest English Kings (London 1991)
Museum of London, The Prittlewell Prince: the discovery of a rich Anglo-Saxon burial in Essex (Museum of London Archaeology Service 2004)
Pewsey, C., & A.Brooks, East Saxon heritage: an Essex gazetteer (Alan Sutton 1993)
Pryor, F., Britain AD (HarperCollins, 2004)
Swanton, M., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Phoenix 2000).
Welch, M., Anglo-Saxon England (Batsford/English Heritage, 1992)
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