Settlement and territories: Early and Middle Saxon settlements and the antiquity of hundreds in Suffolk

Cox, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1193-4074 (2024) Settlement and territories: Early and Middle Saxon settlements and the antiquity of hundreds in Suffolk. Landscapes, 24 (2). pp. 102-120. ISSN 1466-2035

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Abstract

Despite the past debate surrounding the relationship between sites of Early and Middle Anglo-Saxon activity and parish boundaries, the relationships between Anglo-Saxon settlements, cemeteries and the boundaries of larger territorial units, particularly hundreds, remains little explored. This article investigates the important association between Anglo-Saxon settlements and hundred boundaries using data from the Suffolk Historic Environment Record (HER) and Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS). It is argued that the relationship between Early and Middle Saxon settlements and hundred boundaries is variable, a pattern which may be associated with the differing origins and character of individual or groups of hundreds. This observation offers a method for distinguishing those hundreds that once formed post-Roman folk territories from those which were laid out later.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	anglo-saxon cemeteries,anglo-saxon settlement,hundred boundaries,portable antiquities scheme,territorial change,archaeology,geography, planning and development,history,archaeology,nature and landscape conservation ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1204
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	11 Mar 2024 09:32
Last Modified:	14 Dec 2024 01:38
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/94616
DOI:	10.1080/14662035.2023.2322205

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