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The development of the major settlement of Lundenwic in the late 7th century AD marked the rebirth of London as a town. In the following century the emporium served as a seaport for the landlocked kingdom of Mercia and played a significant role in the maritime trade of north-west Europe.
The British Museum citole is a unique example of medieval craftsmanship and is one of very few surviving instruments from the Middle Ages.
Our recent understanding of British history has been slowly unravelling thanks to new techniques such as DNA analysis, new archaeological data and reassessment of the literary evidence. Yeates reassesses the first Millennium AD, arguing that the major migration periods in Europe occurred in the Mesolithic and the Neolithic.
An original and approachable account of how archaeology can tell the story of the English village.
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