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This is a very interesting bit of news! Digging for Britain: Prehistoric find shines light on Neolithic life
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So sad that they lack the funding to continue the dig. Archaeologists Rebury ‘First-of-Its-Kind’ Roman Villa
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I found this article very interesting! Æthelred the “Unready” – The Lost King of England
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Intriguing mystery! French bracelet among surprises in mysterious Havering hoard
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The Age Of Iron in the Albion.
The Iron Age of The Islands of the Britons lasted from 800BCE to the arrival of the Romans in 43AD. Archaeologists make statements like that all the time, swiftly bundling prehistory into tidy manageable bundles, each with a name, or more often than not, an age.
However, the billions of empty years after the scientific Big Bang, the aeons required for the movement of tectonic plates across the face of the Earth, the millions of years spent by Mother Nature making the continents even vaguely liveable for the likes of humankind.
Leaving cosmologists, geologists, & archaeologists to fathom a meaning to Mother Earth. Historians recording people from around the world making stone tools, but not finding these stone tools in parts of Asia. If you have the sharpness of bamboo then why do you need a flint.
Reference used : http://www.wikipedia.org. – Neil Oliver.
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The Angles.
& why Angle-Land when there was so many Saxon settlements ? According to Angle documents and archaeological evidence, the Angles came from an area called Anglia, a small peninsula in the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.
Anglia is actually a part of the much larger Jutland peninsula, most of which makes up modern-day Denmark, and the answer to Angle-Land is to do with the literacy of the Angles, also, their cousins the Dutch Frisians and the Dane-Law that swept across Southern England, the pen and the written word stronger in records than the sword.
Even the well-educated West Saxon King Alfred the Great identified that his Wessex Kingdom was in the land of the Angles, Alfred went even further of his acknowledgement that the Saxon Kingdoms were thriving on the ancestral lands of the former Angles, and he recognised the expression of Angle-Land and found it a fitting description of where the Saxons put down their roots. Also Alfred did not care for the expression of New Saxony.
Reference used : Helen Geake & Captivating Histories.
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The Early Settlements of the Anglo-Saxons.
The term ‘Anglo-Saxon’, is a modern compound word used by historians to define the Germanic tribes who inhabited the Isle of Britain in the early 5th century, but the multiracial dynamics of early England is far more complex than just the working label of ‘Anglo-Saxons’.
In Bede’s ‘Ecclesiastical History’, Bede talks of the Norwegian & Scoti incursions into the land of the Picts, the Celtic Kingdoms of Cymru & Cornwall, the Jutes of Kent, Kent that would later strengthen its links with the Frankish connection, the Geats, Danish & Dutch Frisians incursion of East Anglia, the Batavian veterans of Rome who remained after the Romans left, and finally the Iberian Gallatian newcomers in Southern Ireland.
Reference used : Helen Geake & Captivating Histories.
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Britannia Becomes England.
With the end of the Roman Empire, the local Britons were left to their own devices, and it would be several groups from a Germanic & Danish peninsulas that would come to dominate the vacuum left by Rome.
The bread-basket of England would be dominated by the Angles & the Saxons who would make their presence known by battles, inner-conflicts, tribal clashes, victories and defeats on British soil. However, like the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons had lots more to offer in their new kingdoms.
Their new approach to day-to-day agricultural lives, how they dressed and adorned themselves in gold and silver, entirely different from the Romano-Brits, how they enjoyed to feast in the long halls, how their nobility walked around with the strength of body-guards, how their buried their dead with unusual reverence, how they worshipped their gods & goddesses, a pantheon quiet alien to the Celtic Romano Britons.
Reference used : Helen Geake & Captivating Histories.
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The Supernatural Powers of Springs, Rivers & Wells.
The awe-inspiring effect that water had on our ancestors, as far back as the Bronze Age, and perhaps even earlier, nomadic people regarded water as one of the prime sources of life, and sacred rivers, springs and wells were frequently believed to be gifts from the Otherworld, they became places of pilgrimage and worship, and the stories told about these rivers and springs linger to the present day.
Some of the oldest names in the world were given to rivers, mainly goddesses of fertility were associated with these ancient names, like the River Clyde named after the goddess Clota or the River Dee after the goddess Deva.
Reference used : Water Guardians.
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