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 When were the Anglo-Saxons in Britain?

How do we know all this?

When the Romans left, very few people wrote about Britain. A British monk called Gildas wrote in Latin in around AD530. However, he doesn't write much about the Anglo-Saxon settlements, since he is too busy writing about the British tribes fighting each other.

Later in AD730 an Anglo-Saxon monk called Bede wrote about the history of English people.

Anglo-Saxons also used runes (marked stones) but little has survived. Much of our evidence comes from archaeology: burials, grave goods, treasure hoards and building remains.

The children visited Clitheroe Castle and loved learning all about the three battles and how life was hard compareed to life now.

Please have a look at the pictures below.