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Lindsey: The Archaeology of an Anglo-Saxon Kingdom
Lindsey The Archaeology of an AngloSaxon Kingdom Author:Kevin Leahy Lindsey was a small Anglo-Saxon Kingdom that lay to the south of the Humber Estuary in what is now north Lincolnshire. For long neglected, over the last 50 years, Lindsey has emerged from its own dark age to reappear as an Anglo-Saxon Kingdom, never powerful, usually on the edge of great events, but highly prosperous and sophisticated. Drawing o... more »n the evidence of settlements, cemeteries, churches and place names, Kevin Leahy charts the Anglo-Saxon takeover of one of the richest areas of Roman Britain, the flourishing Christian culture of the eighth and ninth centuries, and then the Viking invasion of 877.« less