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Early historic Britain
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Figure 10.1 Map of kingdoms and tribal areas mentioned in text.
It is chronologically divided into ‘Early’ —roughly AD 450–650, ‘Middle’ —AD 650–800 and
‘Late’ —AD 800–1066. The division between ‘Middle’ and ‘Late’ is complicated by the arrival of
Viking raiders and settlers (see Chapter 11). Alternative names given to the ‘Early’ period reflect
the importance attributed by some scholars either to the movements of barbarian peoples into
the former Roman Empire, hence ‘the Migration period’, or to Christianity, which can be seen as