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Lordship and Landscape in East Anglia AD400-800
The royal centre at Rendlesham, Suffolk, and its contexts
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
685 kr
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This is an inter-disciplinary study of pathways to regional rulership and territorial lordship in early post-Roman Britain which takes as its starting point the East Anglian royal centre at Rendlesham and its contexts.This book examines the origins and development of the East Anglian kingdom in the fifth to eighth centuries AD through the lens of the elite settlement complex at Rendlesham, Suffolk using an interdisciplinary approach involving field survey, landscape history, excavation and metal-detecting finds. It also examines the wider regional context and proposes a new narrative of kingdom formation.
211 kr
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In 2003 archaeologists discovered an intact princely burial between busy Priory Crescent and the railway line near Priory Park in Prittlewell. A find of international significance, this is the richest and most important Anglo-Saxon burial found since the 1939 discovery of the great ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. The lavishly furnished wooden chamber beneath a mound contained the coffin of a high-status man, evidently a Christian, who died at the end of the 6th century AD. The results of years of study of the excavated evidence are described and illustrated here to provide an account of the burial and the grave goods, and the information they give us about the East Saxon kingdom, where the man lived, and its contacts with Kent, Francia and the Christian Mediterranean.
Rendlesham and the East Anglian Kingdom
Investigating an Early English Royal Centre and its Contexts
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
760 kr
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Lost for centuries, the site of the East Anglian royal settlement at Rendlesham is now giving up its secrets. Noted by the Venerable Bede as a place of royal baptism in the seventh century AD, its location has been pinpointed and its archaeology investigated. The settlement flourished from the early fifth century AD, and was at its peak between the late sixth and early eighth centuries – when it was larger and wealthier than any other of the time yet known in England. Rendlesham was then the center of a major region of the East Anglian kingdom: a residence of the East Anglian ruling family – the Wuffingas – and the place from which the kings exercised their rule over the surrounding territory. Members of the royal kindred were buried at the princely burial grounds at Snape and Sutton Hoo, which were part of the same landscape of power.Rendlesham cannot be fully understood in isolation. There are other comparable sites in East Anglia that also appear to have been centers of wealth and power, set in their own discrete territories. Were these originally the residences of independent local rulers who were eventually dominated by the rulers of Rendlesham? Or were the latter dominant from the start, perhaps taking over the Roman civitas of the Iceni? Such questions go to the heart of current debates about the forces that shaped early England.This book tells the story of the initial discovery and subsequent archaeological investigations at Rendlesham, and places the site in its broader context as a focus of power in the early East Anglian kingdom. It considers the approaches in archaeology and landscape history that were used – including systematic metal-detecting – and highlights the extraordinary results that offer new perspectives on early English society and the origins of the English kingdoms.