![]() Whilst academics theorise about the survival of Rome and the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons, popular culture revels in a fantastic world of warriors and sorcery. What happened next is shrouded in Dark Age mystery.įor most people the ‘Dark Ages’ are just that: a period of time impenetrable behind a fog of myth, legend, and chronological uncertainty. ![]() Sixteen hundred years ago, in AD 409, the authorities in Britain rebelled against Rome, ejected the imperial officials, and set up their own government. Did 9th century Anglo-Saxon propaganda distort the records for the turbulent 5th and 6th centuries? Rather than Briton versus Anglo-Saxon - as in the myth of Arthur - was it simply a murderous struggle between rival British warlords? Archaeologist Miles Russell has been re-reading Dark Age history books.
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