How we know about life in Anglo-Saxon England

Most of our sources for Anglo-Saxon Britain are artefacts, supplemented by some writing. All of these sources can be used for different enquiries. By using the sources in different ways, and asking different questions, historians have inferred different things. Historians have inferred a lot about Anglo-Saxon culture and society by combining their findings from different sources. A good description of the evidence used to uncover life in Anglo-Saxon Britain will use knowledge from across this unit.