Guide to historical time periods
Date
Name
What’s happening
KAW sites
World events
410800 AD
PostRoman
Some hill forts re-occupied, historical records of regular European and Celtic invasions and trading.
Old Sarum
All sorts of people gallop around Europe – Vandals, Goths, Visigoths, Angles, Saxons, Moors etc. Charlemagne gets it together as King of the Franks in the late 700s.
800Saxon/ 1066 AD Viking
Constant conflict between Scandinavian invaders and British Saxons from 793.
Old Sarum, Herepath at Avebury, early churches.
Vikings causing trouble all over Europe and Russia.
1066 AD Norman
Vikings from France beat Harold at Hastings and build castles everywhere to control the country.
Old Sarum and Farnham Castle. Waverley Abbey, more churches.
Early crusades into Italy, Spain, the Middle East and Africa.
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