Romans, Saxons and Princely Burials
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Territoriality in the Early Medieval Landscape
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The East Saxons are known to us in various ways: our county of Essex is named after them, the ‘Prittlewell Prince’ must have been a member of their royal family, and the evocative chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall is one of the earliest Saxon buildings to have survived in the whole of England. Both documentary sources and archaeology tell us something of the political and religious history of the East Saxons, but until recently we knew far less about the wider rural landscape.
This series of talks will explore various aspects of the landscape of Essex in the ‘Saxon period’, and in particular how it was divided-up into a series of small districts or ‘early folk territories’.
Such is the dearth of evidence for Anglo-Saxon settlements and burials across large parts of central Essex, however, we might ask ‘how Saxon were the East Saxons?’
Join us on the 28th May to learn more about the landscape of Essex as the Saxons knew it.
Nick Wickenden: Late Roman Essex. The three shuns - Ruralisation, de-urbanisation and immigration
Stephen Rippon: Territoriality in the Early Medieval Landscape
Ken Crowe: The Princely Anglo-Saxon burials of Essex - Broomfield and Prittlewell
Registration and coffee from 10:00
Talks Starting at 10:30, finishing by approximately 12:15
Find out more about our speakers below.
Stephen Rippon is Professor of Landscape Archaeology at the University of Exeter. He was born and brought up in Essex, and has published various papers and books on different aspects of the county’s landscape history and archaeology.
Nick Wickenden helped write up and publish Chelmsford Excavation Committee digs in Essex before moving to Chelmsford Museum to help interpret and display the results. He has now retired to Colonia Victricensis and, in writing this talk, discovered a number of thought provoking similarities between late Roman life in Essex and modern immigration.
Ken Crowe retired in 2014 from Southend Museum, where he was curator of Human History. During the time of the excavation of the Prittlewell Prince, he acted as archaeological curator for the site on behalf of Southend Borough Council, and visited the site almost on a daily basis. What excitement!
Please visit https://www.essexrecordoffice.co.uk/visit-us/ for details of our nearest public car parks.
