![]() ![]() One reaction to this lack of basic data would be to say that there is simply no point in establishing a detailed research agenda and that instead we should be requiring more data about everything. Settlement patterns and material culture in these areas are simply unknown. There are, for example, no excavated settlements in huge areas of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Much of what we accept as fact, or working hypothesis, is based on little or no archaeological evidence. ![]() ![]() This is, of course, far from satisfactory. Instead, we try to construct a historical archaeology using a chronologically and religiously biased corpus of documentary sources. However, the archaeology of the period has never been treated in a prehistoric manner, establishing a chronology on the basis of scientific methods and artefact typology. In effect, the period is prehistoric until the early eighth century, when Bede provides the first contemporary account of the region, from the perspective of a Northumbrian monk living on an island which was politically, ethnically and religiously divided. The fifth to ninth centuries encompass a period of British archaeology which is trapped between disciplines. Click here to see how to contribute Introduction ![]()
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