Appearence and tactics of early 5th century Saxons.

[ambrosius]

Well, it took quite some effort :wink:

And it was well worth it, wasn't it. 8) Thanks for all that.
As you point out, there is still an enormous amount of political-agenda-
making being done with all the evidence in cases like this. The worst,
though, as I pointed out before, is Powlesland shamelessly claiming
that the demographics of the findings (four Anglo-Saxon women out
of a sampl eof 24 graves) doesn't constitute an invasion. When he
was at pains to point out that several of his 'Anglo-Saxon' weapons-
burials at West Heslerton were female! And he went on to make the
point (in a different T.V. documentary years ago) that it's no longer
safe to say: 'This one's got a spear - it's a bloke; this one's wearing
jewellery - it's a girle'. But he seems to have forgotten he said all
that, now.

Ambrosius/Mike