Appearence and tactics of early 5th century Saxons.

[Chariovalda]

However, the reason for me using the West Heslerton research was to make another point, which still stands. This point was that the cemetery failed to show a large group of foreigners, especially males or warriors, who were supposed to signify the large wave of immigrants that, according to current belief, reached Britain in the 5th or 6th centuries and displaced the native inhabitants.
But so far, if I’m not mistaken, none represent that warrior group that is said to have arrived early and in big numbers.
And yes, I realise that this group could have arrived, did their thing and moved away, leaving room for later migrants to arrive at leisure over an extended period of time. Or they did not arrive there at all – the (lack of) evidence goes either way. But the West Heslerton cemetery does not prove the arrival of a large wave of migrant warriors from northern Germany or south Scandinavia which then settled there, which was (part of) the original point.

Well...

True, but “current beliefâ€