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The Berkshire hilltop in which metal detector hobbyists discovered a warrior’s tomb was presumed to have been an insignificant patch of borderland between neighboring tribes 1,400 decades back. However, the warrior, buried with a view of the Thames River valley and {} trappings of status and power, tells a separate story. His existence indicates that this silent little English countryside might have been at the thick of their power struggles which rippled across Britain in the years following the Roman Empire receded.
About 400 CE, Rome left its ancestral colony at Britain and withdrew its troops back into the mainland of Europe. Not long after that, Germanic warriors out of the continent sailed on the islandthe forerunners of this Anglo-Saxons. Archaeologists do not fully agree on if the Anglo-Saxons came as a massive wave of settlers that defeated and replaced with the indigenous Britons, or if just a smaller amount of fighters arrived to Britain to capture power in the aftermath of Rome’s passing. In any event they reshaped British society and culture during the upcoming several centuries.
The Anglo-Saxon tribes banded together under powerful military leaders. As time passes, a few of those groups could coalesce to the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Wessex, Mercia, and Kent. Others faded out of electricity, wiped out or consumed by their own competitions. That brings us into the stretch of the Thames River between Oxford and London, and also the guy archaeologists have known the Marlow Warlord.
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