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)

Your understanding of late Roman and early medieval history is infantile. Romano-British is not a term differentiating classes or groupings within Southern Britain. It refers to everyone who lived in… (View Post)

Not at all. And in much the same way, the 'invasions' were a myth in the Early Medieval Period just as much as they are now. (View Post)