4 101 x A settlement of longhouses laid out on either side of a central street, each house surrounded by a fenced enclosure which sometimes included workshops for specialist production of querns and ironwork. The settlement grew from a small hamlet in the late centuries BC to a substantial village in the 4th and 5th centuries AD.
# Vorbasse, Plan
5 101 x The scattered farming community of Vallhagar, set among walled fields, was occupied in the early centuries AD. Stock-rearing was probably the principal activity here but crops were grown and the local wild horses hunted for food. Pottery making in the village reached an extremely high standard. Stamped decoration was common on these vessels.
# Vallhager, reconstructed house
6 101 x A small farming village of stone houses, cattlesheds and outbuildings arranged in a circle, with additional buildings in the centre. Around the settlement, with houses backing on to it, was a large stone wall. Although this may have been defensive, it was probably more for show.
# Eketorp's Borg, plan: Graham-Campbell p. 30-1
7 101 x An Iron Age hillfort reoccupied and refortified during the 5th and 6th centuries AD. It was identified in later times as Camelot, centre of the legendary king Arthur. Although Arthur cannot be traced through archaeology, there was plenty of evidence for the presence of native British soldiers and other folk here.
# South Cadbury, fortified gateway resonctruction
8 101 x A rural Gallo-Roman settlement where Frankish settlers took up residence in the 5th century AD. Frankish settlements like this contained the characteristic structures of the time: longhouses for people and animals and sunken floor 'pit houses' which were probably workshops.
# Berry-au-Bac, pit house (grubenhaus) from here if possible
9 101 x The port of Lundeborg some 5 miles (8 km) from the important religious and trading centre of Gudme was probably occupied only in the spring and summer, when trade fairs may have been held. Foreign material, including a vast hoard of gold, has been found here. It was also an industrial centre where jewellery was made.
# IW Lundeborg
10 0 7 25
# IW Native Britons
11 0 7 12
# IW Ravenna
12 0 7 18
# IW The burial of Childeric
13 0 7 17
# IW Adoption of Christianity
14 101 x At Old Uppsala, three huge barrows cover the graves of the 5th and 6th century AD kings of Svear tribe, who have given their name to modern Sweden. The kings were cremated, and interred with rich offerings such as gold and garnet jewellery, decorated armour and imported bronze and glass vessels.
# Gamla (Old) Uppsala, painting of the three mounds from 19th C
15 101 x Our best evidence for the Saxons in their German homeland comes from cemeteries, like the extensive one at Liebenau, used from the 5th to 9th centuries AD. Trading or other contacts with neighbouring groups can be seen in the source of some of the grave goods - Frankish metalwork, Thuringian brooches.
# Liebenau, something pretty from a grave here
16 18 7 1
# IM Lyre
17 1 7 27
# IW Runes
18 101 x Not yet confidently located, Mons Badonicus (Mount Badon) was the scene of a great battle around AD 490 in which the British forces, reputedly led by the legendary king Arthur, utterly defeated a Germanic army, winning a breathing space for Romano-British culture and life that lasted some fifty years.
# Mons Badonicus
19 101 x Gudme on the island of Fyn was a major religious centre which also developed into a large and important trading settlement. Finds included many imports such as late Roman coins and ornaments. Gold plaques stamped with the figures of gods and pieces of gold jewellery and weapon fittings were probably religious offerings.
