An excavation has revealed an elaborate hall in the east of England of early Anglo-Saxon kings, which was used for feasting by monarchs and their warriors roughly 1,400 years ago.
Archaeologists in the east of England have unearthed the remains of an elaborate hall that Anglo-Saxon monarchs and warriors feasted in roughly 1,400 years ago.
"These are the burials of individual kings who would have stayed at Rendlesham over a period of about 150 years," Faye Minter, the senior archaeological officer for Suffolk County Council, told Live Science. Archaeologists have worked at the Rendlesham site since 2008, and the recent excavations are part of the Rendlesham Revealed project, which includes the work of hundreds of volunteers from local communities.
The royal residence is recorded in the writings of the eighth-century English scholar Bede, who identified it as the place where in A.D. 662 the East Anglian king Aethelwald sponsored the baptism of King Swithelm of the East Saxons . Swithelm was an adult at this time, and his baptism represented the conversion of his kingdom from paganism to Christianity; Aethelwald's dynasty had been Christian for decades.
"We think it probably would have been seasonal," Minter said."They would have come with a lot of warriors and a big retinue, and it probably would have increased the population of the settlement quite a lot.""And I think they would have sort of 'eaten the cupboard bare' and then moved on to the next place, so they could be seen as ruling over the whole kingdom," she said.
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