A temple from the time of the East Anglian Kings has been uncovered in Rendlesham.Photo: Suffolk County Council
Posted on 12/11/2023 8:14:23 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Last year the project uncovered the remains of a large timber Royal Hall, confirming the location as a royal settlement of the East Anglian Kings.
This year's excavations also uncovered evidence of metalworking associated with royal occupation, including a mould used for casting decorative horse harnesses similar to that known from the burial ground at Sutton Hoo.
The royal compound was found to have been more than twice the size than previously thought at around 15 hectares, which is equivalent to the size of 20 football pitches. The compound was part of a wider settlement complex covering around 50 hectares which is unique to the archaeology of fifth to eighth-century England...
The Venerable Bede identifies Rendlesham as an East Anglian royal center in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Bede records that King Redwald, who died around AD 625 and whose grave is thought to be the Sutton Hoo ship burial, kept a temple with altars to pre-Christian Gods alongside an altar to Christ – though he does not specify where this was...
This year's excavations also discovered enclosures and evidence of earlier settlements and activities from the Neolithic (4th millennium BC), Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman periods.
These archaeological discoveries show that Rendlesham has been a favored location for human settlement and activity for 6,000 years from the fourth millennium BC to the present day, but that it was most important when a royal center during the 6th to 8th centuries AD.
(Excerpt) Read more at arkeonews.net ...
A temple from the time of the East Anglian Kings has been uncovered in Rendlesham.Photo: Suffolk County Council
Whoops! "by Leman Altuntaş, 21 November 2023".
East Anglia?
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I still remember the big data leak. Even had the source code for some ‘smoothing out’ of the Medieval Warm Period.
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