No Saxon invasion?

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Harry, I think I love you. Great post. Thank you!

Glad you found the info interesting. Would prefer it if you saved your kisses for Janet Montgomery though.

There are quite a few papers around which never seem to get mentioned in the media. One I found recently was published in Antiquity Journal, "New light on the Anglo-Saxon succession: two cemeteries and their dates".

This concerns the dating of two neighbouring cemeteries in the Thames valley, Queenford Farm, a romano british cemetery and Berinsfield, an anglo saxon cemetery. Earlier dating showed that both were in use during the 5th and 6th centuries suggesting that the two communities lived side by side. The new dating techniques however suggest that main use of Queenford Farm was in the 4th and 5th cents. whilst the main use of Berinsfield was in the 5th and 6th cents. Although there is a small overlap, Berinsfield appears to have succeeded Queenford Farm and was not contemporary with it. Another interesting aspect it that isotopic analysis shows that Berinsfield had a different diet to that of Queenford Farm.

It is hard to tell what is going on other than the romano british community goes into decline whilst the anglo saxon community is in the ascendency. There are no indications as to why this may be. What is interesting is that the start of the decline in the romano british community is before the advent of the anglo saxon community and it may support Härke's view that in some cases the anglo saxons moved into an empty landscape.

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