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THIS book is suggestive, in the sense that while it raises many interesting problems, the material at present available does not admit their complete solution. Dealing with a period of about 200 years, from the first coming of the Saxon invaders down to the cessation of the evidence furnished by the pagan interments, Mr. Leeds attempts, from a survey of the archaeological remains, to supplement and correct the literary record. These historical sources are admittedly much later than the events of the early invasions which they profess to record—Prosper Tiro, Gildas, Procopius, and Zozimus belonging to the fifth and sixth centuries, followed by Bede and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
The Archaeology of the Anglo-Saxon Settlements.
By E. Thurlow Leeds. Pp. 144. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913.) Price 5s. net.
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The Archaeology of the Anglo-Saxon Settlements . Nature 92, 369 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/092369a0
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