As I said, it works if the people are no longer there to hold the land - by and large. And the evidence for peaceful assimilatio is everywhere. Combined Germanic and RB cemeteries, continuous occupat… (View Post)

I think we are now safe to add Early Medieval HIstory to the very long list of things you know Sweet FA about. (View Post)

What I always find so utterly incredible about Sutton Hoo is that they were excavating a ghost. There was no ship in the way people usually imagine. That had rotted away centuries before due to the a… (View Post)

It depends on what they were assimilating into. One of the theories which seems to be backed up by both archaeology and genetics is that the Germanic migrants were coming into a largely empty landsca… (View Post)

Apologies but you mistake my point. The migrations were not a myth. The idea that they were an 'invasion' or a conquest is a myth - in my view. We know that there were large scale migration… (View Post)