Our Anglo-Saxon Origins: from the early fifth century to the Norman Conquest was written by Jane Harrison.

“Not so much Dark Ages as different ages.”

They were times of opportunity for new ideas and regrouping of power structures.

Five hundred years of relatively obscure history is here brought to life and illuminated. The “tools” of discovery, unearthed by archaeologists, help to link the centuries and point to gradual economic, political and religious development. These were not always happy times. Land disputes, battles for power and the Viking invasion all caused big upheavals. Blewbury was sufficiently important to be seen at the centre of unrest but escaped unscathed. The author skillfully and concisely takes us up to the tenth century when the village had by then become a settled agricultural community.

Alfred the Great