ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Grave Goods, Saxons, Excavata

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Nicole Hayes

Document Summary

Time team s15-e09 saxons on the edge, stonton wyville, leicestershire. Hundreds of morbid after the saxons time period, centuries after the romans left, found in knave hill in. Roman brittan was sprouting place, when romans left, germans came a destroyed romatta brittan civilization, introduced saxon culture. So little archeology, don"t know much about this time, called the dark ages. Local archeologists of knave hill have found tons of pot lying on surface, one piece is decorated, pointing to angular saxon period 5th 7th century. Existing results of field walking, dark areas coincide with areas they found most of the pottery. Hoping pottery is sitting over top of settlement of saxon buildings. One site want to trench and explore, larger area. Doing this because site ex settlebee, similar site close to knave hill about 10 years ago, found saxon stuff where pottery was found (high concentrations)