Anglo-Saxon settlement and Roman army camp found in A14

A pity that your ignorance about 'the A14' gave away your publicity ploy.
Better luck next time !

"in A14" ... an immediate giveaway.

I gather that you both are saying that the OP posted "in A14" thinking he, (she), meant "in AD14", not realizing that the A14 is a British roadway.

I'm not so sure. Since various message board software packages limit long titles of threads, I think it is entirely possible that the OP simply shortened the last part of the title from "Anglo-Saxon settlement and Roman army camp found in planned A14 extension" to "in A14", in order to be sure the title would fit in.

I say give the OP the benefit of the doubt. I've shortened titles of threads myself for that very reason.

Nah...the publicity link he gave on his one previus post was correctly removed by a moderator.

BTW The link is to a weirdo 'historical mysteries' website with heavy advertizing popups. The OP is blitzing several forums with it.

Although they had been there, there were no Romans in the island in AD 14. There were no Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians or Danes, either. This is bullshit any way you look at it.

For anyone interested in the early, pre-insanity . . . excuse me, pre-christian Anglo-Saxon culture, I suggest you check out Sutton Hoo. This site is in Suffolk, and there was a complete ship burial there. This is the world-famous Sutton Hoo helmet, cleaned up:



And this is a reconstruction of the helmet as it undoubtedly appeared at the time of the burial:



Here is a more detailed description of Sutton Hoo and the archaeological finds:

https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/sutton-hoo-anglo-saxon-ship-burial/gQOPNM9M

Actually, an Anglo-Saxon settlement and a Roman army camp were found in the A14 bypass dig. The excavation of around 350 hectares has been one of the largest archaeology projects in the UK.
Finds include prehistoric flint tools, seven tonnes of pottery, and more than 7,000 small personal objects including a Roman jet pendant carved with the head of Medusa, a brooch in the shape of a chicken [the OP's picture above], a beautifully carved Anglo-Saxon bone flute – and a startlingly well preserved timber ladder, radio carbon dated to about 500 BC, found with a wooden paddle in a pit several metres deep.



Press release: A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon: archaeology shines light on 6,000 years of history

Between 2003 and 2006, they digged up in Dortmund (next to house of friends) a huge Roman burial site, used later by Germanic tribes during the migration of peoples as well. During the Merovingian period, people 'moved' their settlement some dozen meters aside, creating a new village there, nowadays below some dozens of new houses.

Claudius invaded the island in 43 CE. The original occupation was in the southeast and the east. The first Roman fortress was at Camulodunum, now Colchester. Tacitus' Agricola recounts his father-in-law's conquest of much of the island in the period 77/78 and 83/84 CE. The legions were withdrawn in the late fourth century, roughly 383 to 388 CE, during the rebellion of Magnus Maximus. Hengist and Horsa (who, by the names used, were either legendary, or were known by cognomens) did not set up in Kent until 449 CE. This correlates well with the De Excidio of Gildas. Certainly, especially in Suffolk, one can find archaeological sites with British, Roman, and subsequent occupations by the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. But they weren't there at the same time. Hengist and Horsa (roughly, Stallion and Horse) are Saxon words, yet those two are identified as the Jutes who founded a kingdom (and a paltry one at that) in what is now Kent. I find the entire Hengist and Horsa story rather implausible, and with those names, they certainly weren't Jutes.

Whatever the case, this is fascinating stuff. The crapola from the links in the OP is about as plausible as a con man's story, and about as probable as Piltdown man. I just wonder how long it will take to link all that horsie poop up to "ancient astronauts."

- A Roman trade distribution centre,
- The remains of 12 medieval buildings abandoned in the 12th century covering an area of 6 hectares, with the remains of up to 40 earlier Anglo Saxon timber buildings and alleys between houses, workshops and agricultural buildings,
- A massive Anglo-Saxon tribal territorial boundary with huge ditches,
- Three prehistoric henge monuments,

--- that's at least something nearly unique ... on the British Isles.

Abandoned in the 12th century. That in itself is intriguing. The first King Henry had lost his son and heir, so upon his death, Stephen of Blois, his sister's son, claimed the throne. Of course, the baronage accepted him--provisionally. Providing he didn't screw up. Henry died in 1135. He did leave quite a few children, and one of the few legitimate ones--Matilda of Normandy--was the dowager Holy Roman Empress. So she was known as Maud the Empress. Long before Henry's death, doubts about the succession lead to a period known as the Anarchy. This was exacerbated when Maud, unhappily married to the Count of Anjou, decided to contest the crown with Stephen, leading to a civil war from 1140 onward. As Stephen's very unpopular son and heir was killed while raiding church lands in 1153, and the Archbishop of Canterbury and most English Bishops would not support him, Stephen eventually accepted Maud's son, Henry Plantagenet, by then married to Eleanor of Aquitaine. (That set up all manner of grief which did not finally end until the dereat of the English in the Hundred Years War in 1453.

Henry was really the first Norman king, not excepting the first King William, to actually impose his will on the baronage. The Anarchy was truly a time of strife and uncertainty, and knights and barons were often able to run rampant over their neighborhoods. I'm sure a great many villages were abandoned in that time.