Distribution Map

Artefact Distribution Map.

This indicates clusters of recorded finds from the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of East Anglia, Kent and Northumbria. There is a need to debate if the latter are the result of Christian religious centres located in Canterbury and York?

Alternatively, do they represent the activities of earlier antiquarians? Further, are the concentrations arbitrary, reflecting the country wide infrastructure developments in the second half of the twentieth century? Are the East Anglian examples ambiguous, the outcome of a reliance on archaeological activity on close to home sites centred around The University of Cambridge? Artifact distribution maps should be treated with caution, discussed, questioned, but never dismissed.