Nice idesa with Hild, but that too has been Jossed.
There were people around in the 6th century who saw themselves as Romans, particularly in the west (in the south east they seem to have been assimilating to Anglo Saxon culture as quickly as their ancestors had done to Roman culture) but the mid century plague and environmental disaster effectively destroyed Romanness. There www British survivals and enclaves in the east but not Roman.
By the 7th century there had been well over a.century of assimilation in places where there were mixtures, and it comes out in the grave goods: it appears that the broken Romano-British brooches in Saxon and Anglian graves had the same role as the broken Brock in my jewellery box: it's broken, so I can't wear it, but it was my grandmother's so I'm going to keep it.
(More later, possibly much later: I'm packing up after a week and a half camping)
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There were people around in the 6th century who saw themselves as Romans, particularly in the west (in the south east they seem to have been assimilating to Anglo Saxon culture as quickly as their ancestors had done to Roman culture) but the mid century plague and environmental disaster effectively destroyed Romanness. There www British survivals and enclaves in the east but not Roman.
By the 7th century there had been well over a.century of assimilation in places where there were mixtures, and it comes out in the grave goods: it appears that the broken Romano-British brooches in Saxon and Anglian graves had the same role as the broken Brock in my jewellery box: it's broken, so I can't wear it, but it was my grandmother's so I'm going to keep it.
(More later, possibly much later: I'm packing up after a week and a half camping)