Spong Hill is the largest Anglo-Saxon burial site ever excavated, and contains a whopping 2000 cremations and 57 burials! Before the Anglo-Saxons, the site was also used by the Romans and Iron Age settlers. Featuring a ship burial, the site was more than likely built for East Anglian nobility. Situated deep in the Suffolk countryside lies the Snape Anglo-Saxon burial site dating back to the 6th century AD. The building would have been built in 648 by King Cenwalh of Wessex, and demolished soon after the Normans arrived to make way for a much larger cathedral.Īlthough not strictly an Anglo-Saxon building (it was in fact built by the Romans to protect themselves from Anglo-Saxon invaders!), they did make it their home after the Romans left England in the late 5th century. Only the outline of Winchester's Old Minster still remains, although it was fully excavated in the 1960s. Visitors can walk the entire length of the dyke following the Offa's Dyke Path. Even today the earthwork spans almost 20 metres in width and 2 and a half metres in height. The famous Offa's Dyke runs almost the entirety of the English / Welsh border and was built by King Offa as a defensive border against the Kingdom of Powys to the west. Today there is around 5 miles of the dyke remaining, with the majority of it open as a public footpath. Much like Devil's Dyke, Fleam Dyke is a large defensive earthwork which was built to protect East Anglia from the kingdom of Mercia to the west. Today the Devil's Dyke route is a public footpath. It runs for 7 miles and crossed two Roman roads as well as the Icknield Way, allowing the East Anglians to control any passing traffic or troop movements.
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One of a series of defensive earthworks in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, Devil's Dyke was built by the kingdom of East Anglia some time in the late 6th century. It is thought this fort once housed an Anglo-Saxon mint in the early 11th century. Specifically, it was designed to protect the ancient Icknield Way which was a key line of communication and transport at the time.īuilt by King Alfred the Great as part of his military reforms, this ancient sea fort sits almost 100 metres above the sea and would have acted as a defensive measure against marauding Vikings coming down the Bristol Channel. There is, however, a great deal of controversy over how old this tower is, with estimates ranging from 400 to 700AD.īuilt in the late 6th century by the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia, this earthwork was designed as a defensive measure against the Mercians to the west.
This tower was probably constructed by King Edwin of Northumbria in around 630, and is built into the much earlier Roman city walls of York. Burial Sites & Military Remains Anglian Tower, York City, North Yorkshire
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