No Saxon invasion?

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There's a big difference between an invasion and a migration.
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Therefore: migration yes, invasion no.

Haio Zimmermann's paper, "Favourable conditions for cattle farming, one reason for the Anglo-Saxon migration over the North Sea?" would sit well with this scenario. People migrating in search of a better or easier life is a motivation which can be demonstrated even today. His argument is that Britain's warmer winter climate meant that cattle could be outwintered much longer in Britain than on the continent which meant that there was less of a requirement to grow fodder during the summer for winter stabling.

[url:lw5t0qzg]http://www.nihk.de//downloads/5/favourable_conditions_for_cattle_farming.pdf[/url]

In places like West Heslerton, people appear to have moved into an area once inhabited by the romano britons but now deserted. Migration into the area appears to have been throughout a 150 year period. One aspect of West Heslerton that I find interesting is that all the quernstones are imported from the Eifel area, from the quarries north of the Moselle river near its confluence with the Rhine. There are no quernstones from the Pennines which had been producing them continually from the neolithic until the 19th cent.

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