Sublime

Between the Fenland edge at Cambridge and the scarp that forms the north-west edge of Essex a series of dykes survives that seems designed to control, or prevent, access between East Anglia and the Chiltern heartlands, some time between the late fourth and sixth centuries.37 This narrow strip, perhaps formerly the northern border of the Trinovantes

The Ancient Greeks understood that both the mind and body must be exercised.

The Northumbrian army was resoundingly defeated; Æðelfrið was slain and his imperium died with him on the battlefield. By such strokes of fate Edwin succeeded to the Northumbrian kingdom. In victory, he was obliged to recognize Rædwald’s superiority, offering noble hostages to his court, sending gifts reflective of the honour in which he was held a

In 1877, another high-status female grave was discovered at Arras. This time it was found during chalk quarrying, and it became known as the Lady’s Barrow. The woman buried in it was probably around her late thirties when she died. She was around 5ft tall, and her bones were robust – suggesting she was likely to have been fit and well-muscled. She

the landscape archaeologist Della Hooke has plotted evidenceo for the routes along which salt was traded from Droitwich, locally and regionally and, by way of an overland route via the River Thames, to a wider clientèle.12