Late/Post-Roman Britain

Posts concerned with end of the Roman period and post-Roman Britain/Anglo-Saxon England—including, but not limited to, the history, archaeology, landscape and place-names of these periods—are brought together and indexed on this page. I've tried to arrange the following into a number of broad categories to make it easier to find relevant posts.

Fully Referenced Research/Drafts

1. Havelok and the British kings of ‘Lincoln and Lindesi’
2. Were there Huns in Anglo-Saxon England? Some thoughts on Bede, Priscus & Attila
3. The Hwicce of Rutland? Some intriguing names from the East Midlands
4. Britain, the Byzantine Empire, and the concept of an Anglo-Saxon 'Heptarchy': Harun ibn Yahya's ninth-century Arabic description of Britain
5. Romano-British pottery in the fifth- to sixth-century Lincoln region
6. A note on some probable Scandinavian burials in the 'Late Saxon' cemetery at Ketton, Rutland
7. Sasanian finds in early medieval Britain and beyond: another global distribution from Late Antiquity?
8. The fifth-to sixth-century British church in the forum at Lincoln: a brief discussion
9. St Ia of St Ives: a Byzantine saint in early medieval Cornwall?
10. King Alfred and India: an Anglo-Saxon embassy to southern India in the ninth century AD
11. Lissingleys, the meeting-place of Anglo-Saxon & Anglo-Scandinavian Lindsey, and the antiquity of Ogilby's 1675 road from Lincoln to Grimsby

Posts Organized by Topic

Imported Artefacts & Links Between Post-Roman Britain, the Mediterranean World and Beyond

1. Some imitation Islamic coins minted in early medieval Europe
2. The distribution of Islamic dirhams in Anglo-Saxon England
3. Indian silver coins in Viking-age northern Europe & Britain
4. A very long way from home: early Byzantine finds at the far ends of the world
5. Sasanian finds in early medieval Britain and beyond: another global distribution from Late Antiquity?
6. Britain, the Byzantine Empire, and the concept of an Anglo-Saxon 'Heptarchy': Harun ibn Yahya's ninth-century Arabic description of Britain
7. St Ia of St Ives: a Byzantine saint in early medieval Cornwall?
8. A North African Barbary ape in fifth- to sixth-century Britain? A short note on the significance and context of the Wroxeter macaque remains
9. Indo-Pacific beads from Europe to Japan? Another fifth- to seventh-century AD global distribution
10. A Middle Byzantine coin from Carbis Bay, Cornwall

Stable Isotopes & Other Evidence for Long-Distance Movement to Late Roman and Post-Roman Britain

1. Some oxygen isotope evidence for long-distance migration to Britain from North Africa & southern Iberia, c.1100 BC–AD 800
2. Out of the cold far north and east? Some oxygen isotope evidence for Scandinavian & central/eastern European migrants in Britain, c. 2300 BC–AD 1050
3. A note on some probable Scandinavian burials in the 'Late Saxon' cemetery at Ketton, Rutland
4. A note on the evidence for African migrants in Britain from the Bronze Age to the medieval period
5. Some evidence for people of 'East Asian' ancestry living in Roman London
6. A great host of captives? A note on Vikings in Morocco and Africans in early medieval Ireland & Britain
7. A man of possible African ancestry buried in Anglo-Scandinavian York

Research on the Post-Roman Lincoln Region

1. The British Kingdom of Lindsey (on academia.edu)
2. Tealby, the Taifali, and the end of Roman Lincolnshire (on academia.edu)
3. The fifth-to sixth-century British church in the forum at Lincoln: a brief discussion
4. Romano-British pottery in the fifth- to sixth-century Lincoln region
5. Anglo-Saxon or sub-Roman: what should we call Lincolnshire in the fifth and sixth centuries?
6. Anglo-Saxon archaeology, Late Roman provinces & the landscape of post-Roman eastern Britain
7. Havelok and the British kings of ‘Lincoln and Lindesi’
8. Britons and Anglo-Saxons: Lincolnshire AD 400–650 (Second Edition, 2020)
9. The importance of Lincolnshire in the fifth to seventh centuries AD
10. Lissingleys, the meeting-place of Anglo-Saxon & Anglo-Scandinavian Lindsey, and the antiquity of Ogilby's 1675 road from Lincoln to Grimsby

Other Discussions of Individual Sites, Finds & Landscapes from Late/Post-Roman Lincolnshire & Cornwall

1. Cun Hu Hill: a possible late/post-Roman fortification near Grimsby
2. Roman mosaics from the Greetwell villa-palace and other sites in Lincolnshire
3. An early Anglo-Saxon pot from the Greetwell villa-palace
4. Stain Hill and the Lincolnshire Marshes in the Anglo-Saxon period
5. Villas and ranches on the late Roman Lincolnshire Wolds: the Welton le Wold villa and its landscape context
6. The Anglo-Saxon wīc at Garwick: a brief update
7. Ketsby DMV: a Roman–Early Modern settlement site in the Lincolnshire Wolds
8. A tenth-century Anglo-Saxon standing cross discovered at Louth, Lincolnshire
9. Ludford, Tealby and the Taifali: a major Late Iron Age to early post-Roman settlement on the Lincolnshire Wolds
10. Phillack and the Hayle Estuary in the Late Roman and early medieval periods

Research on Other Aspects of Anglo-Saxon History & Archaeology

1. Lindisfarne, the Lindisfaran and the origins of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria (on academia.edu)
2. The Hwicce of Rutland? Some intriguing names from the East Midlands
3. Were there Huns in Anglo-Saxon England? Some thoughts on Bede, Priscus & Attila
4. A brief note on Britons and wealhstodas
5. The Anglo-Saxons abroad? Some early Anglo-Saxon finds from France and East Africa
6. The medieval 'New England': a forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the north-eastern Black Sea coast
7. King Alfred and India: an Anglo-Saxon embassy to southern India in the ninth century AD

Research on Place-Names Relating to Pagan Priests & Sorcerers 

1. A brief note on Willinghams and Inghams: Anglo-Saxon pagan priests and Kultverbände in Lincolnshire & East Anglia?
2. An early Anglo-Saxon sorcerer at Teversham, Cambridgeshire?
3. A 'Sorcerer's Stronghold' in Anglo-Saxon Nottinghamshire: Teversal, Sherwood... & Tolkien's Dol Guldur?